† Moses' tablesn. [see quot. 1806: the allusion is to the stone tablets in Exodus 32:15–16] ScottishObsolete a kind of light-coloured granite with a distinctive dark pattern found at Portsoy on the north-east coast of Scotland.
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1806 Gazetteer Scotl. Introd. p. xii At Portsoy is found that singular kind of granite called Moses' Tables, which, when polished, resembles the Hebrew characters, on a white ground.