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noun

Firestone n.

Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.

A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... rather too soft for this purpose. It is a freestone, cutting in all directions; yet has something of a grain parallel with the horizon, and therefore should not be surbedded, but laid in the same position as it grows in the quarry.** On the ground abroad this firestone will not succeed for pavements, because, probably, some degree of saltness prevailing within it, the rain tears the slabs to pieces.*** Though this stone is too hard to be acted on by vinegar, yet both the white part, and even ...

— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White

Words linked to "Firestone" : sandstone