Definition of Pipestones

1. pipestone [n] - See also: pipestone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipestones

piperylenes
pipes
pipes down
pipes of Pan
pipesful
pipesmoke
pipesmoker
pipesmokers
pipesmoking
pipestem
pipestem arteries
pipestem clematis
pipestem fibrosis
pipestems
pipestone
pipestones (current term)
pipet
pipets
pipette
pipetted
pipettes
pipetting
pipettor
pipettors
pipevine
pipevines
pipeweed
pipework
pipeworker
pipeworkers

Literary usage of Pipestones

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... Winchell has detected a Lingula-like shell in the pipestones of Minnesota. Selwyn has described traces of animals in the Upper Huronian of Lake Superior ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"... Winchell has detected a Lingula-like shell in the pipestones of Minnesota. Selwyn has described tracks of animals in the Upper Huronian of Lake Superior ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... Winchell has detected a Lingula- like shell in the pipestones of Minnesota. Selwyn has described tracks of animals in the Upper ..."

4. Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries and Antiquarian Gleaner: An edited by John Spencer, Thomas Spencer, Frederic Chapman (1891)
"... pipestones, &c., of a date between 200 and 300 years since. And this may possibly account for the seeming anomaly that similar articles were found in ..."

5. Annual Report by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1878)
"... the question — which of course they are not competent to answer—-whether they are not the approximate equivalents of the pipestones of Barren county, ..."

6. Annual Report by University of Minnesota Board of Regents (1899)
"... 345, 346, 347 metamorphosed XVI, 346 Peckham, SF analysis of Belle Plaine water II, 87 analysis of peat II, 95; VI, 128 analysis of pipestones VI. ..."

7. Correlation Papers Archean and Algonkian by Charles Richard Van Hise (1892)
"A Lingula-like shell has been found by Wine-hell in the pipestones of Minnesota. Selwyn has described tracks of organic origin in ..."

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