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ˈslate-stone
Also 4, Sc. 8–9 sklate, 5 sklaytt, sclathe, 6–7 (9 Sc.) sclate.
[slate n.1]
1. A single piece of slate, or of thin stone serving the same purpose.
c1440Alph. Tales 307 He tuke þe knyght be þe nekk & drew hym oute þurgh þe thakk of þe howse..& his bowels cleuyd on þe sclathe stonys. 1493Mem. Ripon. (Surtees) III. 164 Pro xxiiij sklaytt stonys pro prædictis cameris. 1530Palsgr. 271/1 Slate stone, ardoyse. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 514 The neighbour inhabitants use to digge great plenty of sclate stones for their buildings. a1618Raleigh Invent. Shipping 7 All that have Corne beate it in Morters, and make Cakes, baking them upon Slatestones. 1720Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 156 'Tis a' sklate⁓stanes instead of money. 1778W. Pryce Min. Cornub. 74 The famous Delabole Slate-stones. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xviii, The folk might see men deliver up their silver to the state's use, as if it had been as muckle sclate stanes. 1842Borrow Bible in Spain xxiv, The huts were built of slate stones.
2. Stone of the nature of slate.
1392Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 116 Pro coopertura cujusdam domus..cum sklatestane. 1748J. Hill Hist. Fossils 446 Blueish glittering slate Stone. 1764Phil. Trans. LIV. 51 In the slate-stone, they are generally crushed. 1796W. H. Marshall Econ. W. Eng. II. 320 The material of building being a coarse schistus, or slate stone. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. xii. 360 These flags are employed for roofing purposes..and receive the name of ‘slatestone’.
attrib.1796W. H. Marshall Econ. W. Eng. II. 65 The materials of these hills appear to be chiefly rotten slate, or rusty slate-stone rubble. |