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Definition of Potstones
1. potstone [n] - See also: potstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potstones
Literary usage of Potstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Student's Elements of Geology by Charles Lyell (1885)
"On breaking open the potstones, I found an internal cylindrical nucleus of ...
At the distance of half a mile, the vertical piles of potstones were much ..."
2. Elements of Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1866)
"The potstones, many of them pear-shaped, were usually about three feet in ...
On breaking open the potstones, I found an internal cylindrical nucleus of ..."
3. The Student's Lyell: A Manual of Elementary Geology by Charles Lyell, John Wesley Judd (1896)
"potstones. Siliceous sponges of tbe chalk.—A more difficult problem is presented
by the occurrence of certain huge flints, ..."
4. Elements of Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"On breaking open the potstones, I found an internal cylindrical nucleus of ...
At the distance of half a mile, the vertical piles of potstones were much ..."
5. A Manual of Elementary Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"On breaking open the potstones, I found an internal cylindrical nucleus of ...
At the distance of half a mile, the vertical piles of potstones were much ..."
6. A Manual of Elementary Geology: Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1860)
"On breaking open the potstones, I found an internal cylindrical nucleus of pure
chalk, much harder than the ordinary surrounding chalk, and not crumbling to ..."
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