Usually means: Limestone used for building, sculpting.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Portland stone, Portland stone, portland stone: Merriam-Webster
  2. Portland stone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. portland stone: Wordnik
  4. Portland stone: Wiktionary
  5. Portland stone: Dictionary.com
  6. Portland Stone, Portland stone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Portland stone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Portland stone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. portland-stone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. Portland Stone: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. portland stone: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Portland stone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portland stone: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Portland stone)

noun:  A limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period, quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and used extensively for building in the British Isles.

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