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(archaeology) A primitive artifact made of sandstone used for smoothing, sharpening, or shaping.
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A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
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A semiconductor manufacturing process for grinding the back side of a wafer.
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(archaeology) A double-sided stone tool
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A factory where bricks are produced or distributed
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A prehistoric flint tool
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Of or pertaining to caulk.
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A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
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(UK) A traditional building material mostly made of chalk or clay.
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A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
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A brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.
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(historical) A millstone made from this substance.
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A stone age flint scraper
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Alternative form of dottle [A plug or tap of a vessel.]
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An elite chipped artifact of an often irregular shape, typically fashioned from chert, chalcedony or obsidian (not flint), produced by the Classic Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.
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The grain of wood cut at right angles, with visible growth rings.
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(archaeology) A flake removed from a lithic flake's bulb of force.
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Preferring the customs of earlier times.
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(especially in plural) A splinter of stone inserted into the wet mortar of masonry.
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Any of various putties used in glazing (window installation and repair) to affix the panes to the muntins, mullions, and frames, traditionally or archetypically used by glaziers (although today likely to be used by renovation contractors or DIY renovators).
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(founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
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(obsolete) A grindstone.
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A tool used in making stained glass windows; a pair of groziers.
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(Wicca) A ceremonial stone with a hole drilled into used to ward off evil or see into other worlds
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Any of various other handheld stone tools.
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A soft kind of stone used to whiten doorsteps, scour floors, etc.
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A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
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A bone tool, dated to the Upper Paleolithic era, known for a series of what has been interpreted as tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the tool.
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A disc made of lead and charged with emery, used for grinding gems.
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(archaeology) A prehistoric tool, made of bone or wood, used to soften leather.
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A kind of insulation made of light loose materials spread evenly.
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(brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
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(US) A stone believed to have the power to heal the bite of a rabid or venomous animal.
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A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
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To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
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(figuratively) Often in a millstone round one's neck (referring to Matthew 18:6 in the Bible): a heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear.
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(countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
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A material, consisting of tarred fibres, used to caulk or pack joints in plumbing, masonry, and wooden shipbuilding.
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A type of stone used for sharpening objects such as knives and razorblades.
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A member of the prehistoric culture that made these stone tools.
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(iron manufacturing) Formed from a pile or fagot.
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A string of oakum used in calking.
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A tool used in cleaning lithographic stones.
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A groove found carved into rock, once used to polish stone axes.
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A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.
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Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand.
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(archeology) A prehistoric flint scraper.
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A mechanical device consisting of a metal box with a series of vertical slats through which material is poured and randomly divided into two samples; this process is repeated to obtain a small representative sample of a bulk material.
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(transitive) To polish with rottenstone.
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Work in stone smoothed by rubbing with gritstone or similar.
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A gritstone for erasing the marks on a stone.
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(stonemasonry) Cut stone facing where the joints are rusticated; a stone where the face is cut to a rough or jagged surface in imitation of nature.
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A whetstone for sharpening scythes.
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A worker who applies shellac.
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(archaeology) A Paleolithic stone tool used for scraping.
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Alternative spelling of slingstone [A stone, bullet, or other such missile or projectile thrown by a sling.]
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(uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
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(transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
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A machine that is used to cut stone or concrete.
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Of cloth or clothing, having been tumbled with stones in order to soften the fabric.
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A vat sunk into the ground for tanning leather.
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A natural sharpening stone lubricated with water.
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To sand using extremely fine-grained sandpaper, using a lubricant such as water or oil to prevent the sandpaper from clogging.
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To sand with fine-grained sandpaper and lubricant.
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A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.
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Alternative form of whinstone [A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle.]
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A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle.
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