ironstone
any iron-bearing mineral or rock with siliceous impurities.
Also called ironstone china. a hard white stoneware.
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How to use ironstone in a sentence
The town-walls are built of flint and concrete bonded with ironstone, and are backed with earth.
Behind, and almost overhanging it, was a great krantz whose smooth ironstone wall glowed like a vast slab of red-hot metal.
A Frontier Mystery | Bertram MitfordThe first cargo of ironstone was sent from here in 1836, when the Pickering and Whitby Railway was opened.
Yorkshire Painted And Described | Gordon HomeExamples of this are chert nodules in limestone; flint nodules in chalk; clay-ironstone balls in shale, &c.
Geology | James GeikieI found the magnetic polarity to be very distinct in some of the ironstone pebbles on these rises.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia | William John Wills
British Dictionary definitions for ironstone
/ (ˈaɪənˌstəʊn) /
any rock consisting mainly of an iron-bearing ore
Also called: ironstone china a tough durable earthenware
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