Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stone, such as limestone, that is soft enough to be cut easily without shattering or splitting.
- noun A fruit, especially a peach, that has a stone that does not adhere to the pulp.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any species of stone composed of sand or grit, as the brownstone or brown sandstone of the eastern United States, much used in building: so called because it is easily quarried.
- noun A freestone peach: distinguished from
clingstone . See II. - Having, as a fruit, a stone from which the flesh of the fruit separates readily and cleanly, as distinguished from the quality of having a stone to which the flesh clings or adheres firmly: as, a freestone peach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought.
- adjective Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, such assandstone orlimestone . - noun A
stone fruit having astone (pit ) that is relativelyfree of the flesh.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The stone is said to be a hard freestone from the Mendip quarries.
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A building material that came into use earlier than granite is known as freestone or sandstone; although its first employment does not date back further than the erection of King's Chapel, Boston, already referred to as the earliest well-known occasion where granite was used in building.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various
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The flesh of a "freestone" peach separates easily from the pit and so lends itself to recipes requiring attractive peach halves or slices.
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The flesh of a "freestone" peach separates easily from the pit and so lends itself to recipes requiring attractive peach halves or slices.
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All the houses along the Undercliff are constructed with a beautiful kind of freestone procured on the spot.
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The ridges themselves were formed of a coarse kind of freestone in a state of rapid decomposition.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832
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The ridges themselves were formed of a coarse kind of freestone in a state of rapid decomposition.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I Charles Sturt 1832
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A quar* rj has some time ago been opened in Lee - moor; one lately at the Boathouses in the S. £. corner of the parifli; and a coarse kind of freestone is to be had npon the Moafs on the Jerviswood estate, but hitherto has been discoTcred no where else.
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The source of continual expense was due to mansion being constructed of Virginia freestone, which was exceedingly porous, which needed a thick coat of white lead every ten years to keep the dampness from penetrating to the interior.
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Then, when its blackened freestone walls were repainted white to hide the traces of the fire, it was rechristened “The White House”.
chained_bear commented on the word freestone
In castle architecture, stone which is easily cut and molded, such as fine-grained limestone or sandstone.
August 25, 2008
bilby commented on the word freestone
"And true it is that he did many of these things; but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital."
- Henry Fielding, 'The History of Tom Jones'.
September 8, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word freestone
"I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand, a freestone-color'd hand; I verily did think that her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands;" Shakespeare, As You Like It, 1599.
December 5, 2012