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floatstone

noun

Etymology

From float + stone.

  1. derived from *steyh₂-✻ — “to stiffen”
  2. inherited from *stainaz✻ — “stone”
  3. inherited from *stain✻
  4. inherited from stān
  5. inherited from ston
  6. compounded as floatstone — “float + stone”

Definitions

  1. A kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two…

    A kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two millimetres, and which is matrix-supported.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for floatstone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA