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wallstone en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English walle ston, from Old English weallstān (“stone for building”), equivalent to wall + stone.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Stone used for building, especially in the construction of walls.
   • The remainder is used for wallstone or is finely ground for use as filter or as a feed supplement. 1979, Raymond R. Burchett, The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Systems in the United States—Nebraska:
   • In the upper stories the walls are built hollow, the utilised internal linings of brick, and the outer walling built of coursed rubble wallstones from the old demolished building, […] 1902, Building, volume 82, page 292:

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