burr stone

burr·stone

[bur-stohn]
noun
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buhrstone, burstone or burrstone (ˈbɜːˌstəʊn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
2.  a grindstone or millstone made of this rock
 
[C18 burr, perhaps identical to burr1 (alluding to roughness)]
 
burstone, burstone or burrstone
 
n
 
[C18 burr, perhaps identical to burr1 (alluding to roughness)]
 
burrstone, burstone or burrstone
 
n
 
[C18 burr, perhaps identical to burr1 (alluding to roughness)]

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Burr stone is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
burrstone (ˈbɜːˌstəʊn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a variant spelling of buhrstone

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