Ironstone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ironstone is a noun meaning Any ore of iron which is impure through the admixture of silica or clay.
Meaning
Any ore of iron which is impure through the admixture of silica or clay.
More Meanings
- A type of vitreous pottery similar to stoneware
Example Sentences
The trees like this barren ironstone formation. It's well they do, for nothing else does.
While I listen I sniff in the cordite fumes. Ironstone chipped against ironstone invokes a spark and a wisp of the same heady smoke.
Most of the older buildings are of reddish-brown ironstone with mossy-tiled roofs, and almost all have stone-embanked gardens, richly planted and expertly maintained.
Just before Bloworth Crossing, you'll walk a short distance along the trackbed of the old mineral railway that connected the old ironstone mines at Rosedale with the blast furnaces of Middlesbrough.
Word Forms
- ironstones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include concretionary, pisolitic, blackband, iron, irestone, ironmine.
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