1) Easily cut rock 2) Edible fruit 3) Like some peaches and plums 4) The stone itself
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[masonry] A freestone is a stone used in masonry for molding, tracery and other replication work required to be worked with the chisel. The freestone must be fine-grained, uniform and soft enough to be cut easily without shattering or splitting. Some sources, including numerous nineteenth century dictionaries, say that the stone has no grai...
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type of river or stream with a significant gradient resulting in medium to fast-moving water; may be spring-fed, but most flows result from snow melt, run-off, or tributaries; fast-moving water inhibits vegetation growth; less fertile than spring creeks, but often full of opportunistic fish.
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building stone difficult to split into layers
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• (n.) A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought. • (a.) Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.
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A fruit stone to which the flesh does not cling.
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stone which is easily cut and molded, such as fine grained limestone or sandstone
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High quality sand- or lime-stone.
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High quality sand- or lime-stone.
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These are flat stones used for and flooring roofing prior to the widespread use of slate. They can be cut in any direction. In the 18th century such stone was exported from the Northumberland ports of Cambois and Warkworth.
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Stone which can be easily worked, usually oolitic limestone, or sandstone. It has a fine grain, and may be 'freely worked' with metal tools. Thin slabs of freestone used as facing are called Ashlar.
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soft, easily worked, high-quality sandstone or limestone
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Fine-grained sandstones or limestones that can be readily worked in any direction. ;
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Stone which can be easily worked, usually oolitic limestone, or sandstone. It has a fine grain, and may be 'freely worked' with metal tools. Thin slabs of freestone used as facing are called Ashlar.
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Free'stone` noun A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought.
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In architecture, freestone is building stone which may be cut into blocks and worked with a chisel. The term is applied to stone of very different qualities in different districts, but always to such as may be worked with freedom in comparison with others of the neighbourhood.
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A stone that may be cut freely in any direction without fracture or splitting.
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n] - fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit
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A fruit stone to which the flesh does not cling.
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soft, easily worked, high-quality sandstone or limestone
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noun fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit
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A stone that may be cut freely in any direction without fracture or splitting.
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a fruit having a stone to which the flesh does not cling, as certain peaches and plums. · the stone itself. · any stone, as sandstone, that can be freely worked or quarried, esp. one that cuts well in all directions without splitting.
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