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slatestone en · NOUN

Etymology

From slate + stone.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) slate
    • It [St Pinnock Viaduct] has seven piers of roughly-dressed, coursed slatestone from Westwood quarry. […] Moorswater is another masonry replacement, consisting of seven tapering piers of rock-faced slatestone with eight semi-circular arches with granite long and short voussoirs. 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 58:

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