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Purbeck Stone :: Purbeck stone () A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.

Chamfer :: Chamfer (n.) The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc..

Bond :: Bond (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break jo

Shingle :: Shingle (n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere..

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A prepared piece of such stone.

Pave :: Pave (v. t.) To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court..

Perpend Stone :: Perpend stone () See Perpender.

Lapidescence :: Lapidescence (n.) A hardening into a stone substance.

Cog :: Cog (n.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

Flag :: Flag (v. t.) To lay with flags of flat stones.

Gannister :: Gannister (n.) A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads..

Collet :: Collet (n.) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.

Rammer :: Rammer (n.) An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.

Eyestone :: Eyestone (n.) Eye agate. See under Eye.

Robinet :: Robinet (n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.

Sarsen :: Sarsen (n.) One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone..

Stoned :: Stone (n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone..

Skew :: Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place..

Fabrile :: Fabrile (a.) Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill..

Veinstone :: Veinstone (n.) The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; -- called also veinstuff..

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