Sandstone
['sæn(d)stəʊn] or ['sænd'ston]
Definition
(noun.) a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.).
Checker: Norris--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
Typed by Harley
Examples
- Sediment ary rocks, like old red sandstone, and, according to Werner, basa lt, are in a third class. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He might have been an Arab, or an automaton; he would have been like a red sandstone statue but for the motion of his arm with the dice-box. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The power was taken from a water wheel in Steele’s Creek, and the first grindstones for smoothing down the welded edges in gun barrels were cut from a red sandstone ledge up the gorge. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Ruth