stone

Definitions

Individual blocks of rock processed by shaping, cutting, or
sizing
. For use in
masonry
work.
Fragments of rock excavated, usually by
blasting
, from natural deposits and further processed by recrushing and
sizing
. For use as aggregate.
A
carborundum
or other natural or artificial
hone
used to sharpen cutting edges of tools.

The hard central seed of fruits such as cherry, peach,
mango
, plum, olive, etc., usually with a hard woody shell enclosing a soft
kernel
.

noun a flat surface, usually metal, on which the pages of metal type are made up into formes
noun a hard mineral surface formerly used in lithography

noun the hard solid nonmetallic substance that rocks are made of, widely used as a
building
material
noun a piece of rock that has been shaped for a particular purpose, e.g. a
paving
stone

noun the shaped and polished mass of granite or iron that is slid along the ice in the game of
curling

Stone is a general Germanic word,

with

relatives in German stein, Dutch steen, and Swedish and Danish sten.

these

all go back to a prehistoric *stainaz,

which

was derived

from

a base denoting ‘stiffness’ or ‘solidity’ (source

also

of Greek stía ‘pebble’ and stéar ‘stiff, fat’, Sanskrit styā- ‘stiffen’, and Serbo-Croat stijena ‘rock’). The use of the

English

term for a measure of weight,

equal

to fourteen pounds, dates from the 14th century.

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