Definition of Burstone

1. a heavy stone [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burstone

burstable
bursted
bursten
burstenness
burster
bursters
bursteth
burstier
burstiest
burstin'
bursting
bursting charge
bursting explosive
bursting out
bursting pressure
burstone (current term)
burstones
bursts
bursts out
burstwort
burstworts
bursty
bursula
bursæ
burt
burthen
burthened
burthening
burthens

Literary usage of Burstone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1916)
"Osbert, son of Richard, the grandfather of the Osbert here mentioned, had granted to the Convent the church of burstone, about fifty years prior to this ..."

2. Registrum: sive, Liber irrotularius et consuetudinarius Prioratus Beatae by Worcester Cathedral (1865)
"Osbert, son of Richard, the grandfather of the Osbert here mentioned, had granted to the Convent the church of burstone, about fifty years prior to this ..."

3. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1865)
"His son Hugo had also granted the manor of burstone, in the time of Hen. II. (see p. 9a), and his sister Margaret ..."

4. An American Geoogical Railway Guide, Giving the Geological Formation at by James Macfarlane (1890)
"burstone. (" Silicious Claiborne," of Hilgard's Mississippi report). This group forms a wide and to northward ill-defined belt, northward of the Claiborne ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... he describes under the same general heading other light-colored sandstones, belonging, respectively, to the burstone and to the Lafayette. ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... he describes under the same general heading other light-colored sandstones, belonging, respectively, to the burstone and to the Lafayette. ..."

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