Meaning of gritstone | Babel Free

Definitions

A form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“So Tom went to go down; and first he went down three hundred feet of steep heather, mixed up with loose brown grindstone, as rough as a file […]”

“Adjacent to the roundhouse, but a little further north towards Curzon Street, are the surprising remains of the wagon turntables for the goods shed. Unusually, these are made out of solid gritstone so survive pretty much intact.”

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