clay stone
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of clay stone
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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A chicken is a chicken, but sponge, icing, chocolate and food colouring are the kitchen creator's media, just as clay, stone and paint are for the sculptor or painter.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
They made vessels of clay, stone and copper, wove cloth and mats from palm leaves and fashioned other copper objects, including axes, nails and pins.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were always Dodge's assurances, but clay, stone, metal, were cold for a belief to embrace.
From Linda Condon by Hergesheimer, Joseph
The idols are of clay, stone, and copper, or of the precious metals.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina
The country over which we travelled this day was like all the rest we had seen in King William Land—broken and jagged clay stone, with intervening marshes.
From Schwatka's Search by Gilder, William H. (William Henry)
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