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Lapidary :: Lapidary (n.) An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones..

Petroglyphy :: Petroglyphy (n.) The art or operation of carving figures or inscriptions on rock or stone.

Lay :: Lay (n.) That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood..

Rareripe :: Rareripe (n.) An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach..

Tailing :: Tailing (n.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles..

Elapidation :: Elapidation (n.) A clearing away of stones.

Psarolite :: Psarolite (n.) A silicified stem of tree fern, found in abundance in the Triassic sandstone..

Dress :: Dress (n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.

Metal :: Metal (n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

Gunstome :: Gunstome (n.) A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone.

Water Joint :: Water joint () A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints..

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Chondrule :: Chondrule (n.) A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites..

Staff :: Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder..

Stock :: Stock (n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone..

Wheatear :: Wheatear (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail..

Holystone :: Holystone (n.) A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.

Miner :: Miner (n.) One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners..

Stone-horse :: Stonehenge (n.) An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple..

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