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English
Etymology
From moor + stone.
Noun
moorstone (countable and uncountable, plural moorstones)
- A type of English granite, found mostly in Cornwall.
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 176:
- Most of them are what is called moorstone, a kind of granite, but which is so damp that it must, when built in the wall of a house, be lined with brick or other stone.
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