Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fragments of stone; gravelly stone; also, a hard, rocky crust below the soil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. Gravelly stone.
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- noun UK, dialect
gravelly stone
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"They passed the night in a shallow cave above this spot, an old reliquary of flintknappings and ratchel scattered about on the stone floor..."
-Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, 1985, p. 60
December 3, 2021