Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gritstone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English

Syllables: grit-stone
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"So Tom went to go down; and first he went down three hundred feet of steep heather, mixed up with loose brown grindstone, as rough as a file […]"
"Adjacent to the roundhouse, but a little further north towards Curzon Street, are the surprising remains of the wagon turntables for the goods shed. Unusually, these are made out of solid gritstone so survive pretty much intact."

Etymology

From grit + stone.

Usage

Inflected Forms

gritstones (plural)

Synonyms

grit gritrock

Questions

What does gritstone mean?: A form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.
Where does gritstone come from?: From grit + stone.

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