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Definition of Ragstones
1. ragstone [n] - See also: ragstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragstones
Literary usage of Ragstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Architectural Magazine (1836)
"Although the walls of cities built by the Romans were seldom entirely of bricks,
or with facings of bricks, or flat ragstones laid in regular courses, ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1906)
"Beneath this came five courses of ragstones, deeply embedded in mortar, and making
together a depth of 2 feet 3 inches. Under these was another bonding ..."
3. The Student's Handbook of Historical Geology by Alfred John Jukes-Browne (1886)
"ragstones or Trigonia grits, coarse shelly limestones, ... In passing to the east
all the freestone beds thin out, and the ragstones only remain above the ..."
4. The Mining Engineer (1902)
"The Upper ragstones.—These beds consist of coarse, shelly limestones of an oolitic
nature, but very hard and tough, of a brown colour, and of little or no ..."
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