whitbedn.

1812 W. Stevenson Gen. View Agric. Dorset 58 White bed, 15 inches; good.

1829 Trans. Geol. Soc. 2 38 These local appellations are not used by London architects and builders, the whole together passing here under the name of Purbeck stone only. The following is a list of the strata of limestone... 13. White bed, excellent.

1863 Builder 5 Dec. 859/1 The results of my experiments show that all the superior descriptions of ‘Whit-bed’ stone combine strength and compactness in a considerably higher degree than the varieties of ‘Base-bed’ stone.

1925 J. Bone London Perambulator ii. 32 You can see shell imprints on the freshly cut whitbed stone on the top of the new Bush Building.

1980 Univ. Coll. London Bull. Mar. 2/2 The thickest and most sought after unit in the local sequence is the Whitbed, noted for its homogeneity stemming from its lack of fossils or flint masses which may blemish other horizons.

2003 Guardian 24 May i. 13/7 The sculpture has five terraces, each in a different grade of stone—slate, topstone, roach, whitbed and basebed—just as they occur in the nearby quarries.