pudding stone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pudding stone
First recorded in 1745–55
Example Sentences
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Their scientific curiosity aroused, Professor & Mrs. Rudge began scouting the area, soon came across another pudding stone.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Rudges still did not know who set out the mysterious stones, but they doggedly followed the pudding stone trail across eastern England.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Rudges believe that the ancient Tardenoisians laid out the pudding stone trail to guide them to their flint mines.
From Time Magazine Archive
A farmer told Mrs. Rudge that the people who built the church brought the pudding stone down from a hill, and three times the devil carried the stone back to its lone hilltop.
From Time Magazine Archive
M. de Saussure has here given us an example of a calcareous Braccia, as he calls it, but which is rather a pudding stone, with veins or contractions of the mass.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James
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