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roofstones

roofstones is the plural of roofstone.

Meaning of roofstone

Noun

roofstone (plural roofstones)

  1. The stone or rock layer immediately above a coal seam.
    • The intention of the props is for the security of the workmen to keep up the roofstone; they have no effect in resisting the crush of the super-incumbent strata.1830, The Edinburgh Encyclopædia, volume 14, page 352
  2. A large, usually flat stone slab placed atop the side-stones (orthostats) of a megalithic burial chamber—such as in portal tombs, wedge tombs, or gallery graves—to form a roof covering the interior space.

Questions about roofstones

What is roofstones the plural of?
Roofstones is the plural of roofstone.

Words near roofstones in the dictionary

  1. roofspace
  2. roofspaces
  3. roofspall
  4. roofspalls
  5. roofstone
  6. roofstones
  7. rooftile
  8. rooftiles
  9. rooftop
  10. Rooftop of the World
  11. rooftopper

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