freestone
noun
- kind of stone
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːstəʊn/ / /ˈfɹiːstoʊn/
name
Etymology: Originated as a habitual name from Friston, Friston, or Frieston.
- A surname from Old English.
- An unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas, United States.
noun
Etymology: From free + stone.
- Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
“Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.”
“It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.”
- A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.