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ˈcrow-stone
1. The fossil shell Gryphæa of the Oolite and Lias.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 105 The petrified Concha oblonga crassa..found in Worcestershire, and there called Crow-stones, Crow-cups, or Egg-stones.
2. A kind of hard white flinty sandstone in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire coal-fields. Cf. crow 10.
1778J. Whitehurst Orig. State of Earth 168 These beds [strata incumbent on coal in Derbyshire] are more white and are commonly called crow-stone. 1811Farey Derbyshire I. 179–80 The immediate floor of every coal seam within all this large district is..a peculiar kind of hard stone, called Crowstone or Ganister. 1864J. C. Atkinson in Gentlem. Mag., Celtic Refuse-heap at Normanby in Cleveland, The querns were formed, one..of the so-called white flint, or ‘crow-stone’ of the neighbourhood [Cleveland].
3. ‘The top stone of the gable end of a house’ (Halliwell). |