Crow-stone. World English Historical Dictionary

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1.  The fossil shell Gryphæa of the Oolite and Lias.

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1677.  Plot, Oxfordsh., 105. The petrified Concha oblonga crassa … found in Worcestershire, and there called Crow-stones, Crow-cups, or Egg-stones.

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  2.  A kind of hard white flinty sandstone in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire coal-fields. Cf. CROW 10.

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1778.  J. Whitehurst, Orig. State of Earth, 163. These beds [strata incumbent on coal in Derbyshire] are more white and are commonly called crow-stone.

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1811.  Farey, Derbyshire, I. 179–80. The immediate floor of every coal seam within all this large district is … a peculiar kind of hard stone, called Crowstone, or Ganister.

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1864.  J. C. Atkinson, in Gentlem. Mag., 165 Celtic Kitchen-refuse-heap at Normanby in Cleveland.… The querns were formed, one … of the so-called white flint, or ‘crow-stone,’ of the neighbourhood [Cleveland].

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  3.  ‘The top stone of the gable end of a house’ (Halliwell).

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