Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A silicious conglomerate rock, so called because it has been worked for millstones in England.
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Examples
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This naval statue (if its bulk forbid not the name) was carved out of a coarse millstone-grit by the chisel of the wind, with but slight assistance from the infrequent rain-storms of this region.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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A similar scene had taken place in the dry moat of Cliff Castle; and at the head of his little party of eight, Ralph Darley was silently on his way to the Steeple Stone, a great rugged block of millstone-grit, which rose suddenly from a bare place just at the edge of the moor.
The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First George Manville Fenn 1870
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Stone lay everywhere: not the limestone of his own hills and cliffs, but grim, black-looking millstone-grit, which here and there formed craggy, forbidding outlines; and this did not increase his satisfaction with his ride, when he took up the rein and began to urge the cob on, to get through the gloomy place.
The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First George Manville Fenn 1870
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"I'm going up the hills to the millstone-grit quarry."
Patience Wins War in the Works George Manville Fenn 1870
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Mountain limestone yonder; this we are on, with all these rough pieces on the surface and sticking out everywhere, is millstone-grit. "
Patience Wins War in the Works George Manville Fenn 1870
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