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wallstone

wallstone noun: stone used for building, especially in the construction of walls.

Noun

wallstone (countable and uncountable, plural wallstones)

  1. Stone used for building, especially in the construction of walls.
    • In the upper stories the walls are built hollow, the utilised internal linings of brick, and the outer walling built of coursed rubble wallstones from the old demolished building, […]1902, Building, volume 82, page 292
    • The remainder is used for wallstone or is finely ground for use as filter or as a feed supplement.1979, Raymond R. Burchett, The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Systems in the United States—Nebraska

Forms of wallstone

pluralwallstones
alternative formwall-stone
alternative formwall stone

Origin of wallstone

From Middle English walle ston, from Old English weallstān (“stone for building”), equivalent to wall + stone.

Questions about wallstone

What does wallstone mean?
Wallstone means stone used for building, especially in the construction of walls.
What part of speech is wallstone?
Wallstone is a noun.
What is the plural of wallstone?
The plural of wallstone is wallstones.

Words near wallstone in the dictionary

  1. wallslammed
  2. wallslamming
  3. wallslams
  4. wallstead
  5. wallsteads
  6. wallstone
  7. wallstones
  8. walltop
  9. walltops
  10. wallum
  11. wallums

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