crow-stonen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcrow-stone.

1. The fossil shell Gryphæa of the Oolite and Lias.

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1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 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 n.¹ 10.

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1778 J. Whitehurst Orig. State of Earth 168 These beds [strata incumbent on coal in Derbyshire] are more white and are commonly called crow-stone.

1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. 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.

1864 J. C. Atkinson in Gentleman's 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).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	crow-stone
释义	crow-stonen. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcrow-stone. 1. The fossil shell Gryphæa of the Oolite and Lias. ΚΠ 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 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 n.¹ 10. ΚΠ 1778 J. Whitehurst Orig. State of Earth 168 These beds [strata incumbent on coal in Derbyshire] are more white and are commonly called crow-stone. 1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. 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. 1864 J. C. Atkinson in Gentleman's 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). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1677
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