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Grapestone :: Grapestone (n.) A seed of the grape.

Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..

Staff :: Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder..

Ammonite :: Ammonite (n.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis..

Sagger :: Sagger (n.) A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar..

Husk :: Husk (n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

Catapult :: Catapult (n.) A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc..

Glyptography :: Glyptography (n.) The art or process of engraving on precious stones.

Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..

Quarry-faced :: Quarry-faced (a.) Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.

Lapidify :: Lapidify (v. t.) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.

Ragwork :: Ragwork (n.) A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones..

Whetstone :: Whetstone (n.) A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools..

Drove :: Drove (n.) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.

Springboard :: Springal (n.) An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.

Litho :: Litho () A combining form from Gr. li`qos, stone..

Jewstone :: Jewstone (n.) A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.

Lithoglypher :: Lithoglypher (n.) One who curs or engraves precious stones.

Scrubstone :: Scrubstone (n.) A species of calciferous sandstone.

Bombard :: Bombard (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

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