mort stone

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mort stone (plural mort stones)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin.
    • 1842, Henry Taylor, Edwin the Fair:
      Oh me ! the mortstone ! No it is not here!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mort stone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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