ventifact
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English
Etymology
Blend of vent (“wind”) + artifact (“an object shaped or created by some process or agency”) from French vent from Latin ventus
Noun
ventifact (plural ventifacts)
- A pebble or little stone shaped and polished by wind-blown sand.
- Hyponym: dreikanter
- 1949, Kenneth Page Oakley, Man the Tool-Maker:
- Stones splintered by fire, or faceted by sandstorms (ventifacts or dreikanters) are occasionally mistaken for the work of man.
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