Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A quarrymen's name for a stratum of the upper Purbeck series, almost wholly composed of oyster-shells, and named from its loose structure. It is a marine bed lying among fresh-water deposits.
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Examples
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As soon as the private railroad car was separated from the others and pushed onto a siding, they converged on it, crossing the cinder-bed tracks to swing onto the rear platform.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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As soon as the private railroad car was separated from the others and pushed onto a siding, they converged on it, crossing the cinder-bed tracks to swing onto the rear platform.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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By the beginning of February he had laid his plans, by the end of it he had taken Saumur, cut Angers off from Tours, and turned all the valley of the Loire into a scorched cinder-bed.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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