firestone
noun
a fire-resisting stone, especially a kind of sandstone used in fireplaces, furnaces, etc.
firestones
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pluralof firestone.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Bumpkin, Lumpkin, and Rumpkin struck the firestones together, and everyone cheered when they finally managed a spark.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
Even the fire, for there was a fire, was a solid mass of firestones; a glowing grateful of hard coal; if there was life in that, it was the life of mere existence.
From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner
A pot of cooking rice The three horses are the firestones or the three supports of the pot in the pottery stove; the bubbling is the crying.
From A Little Book of Filipino Riddles by Frederick Starr
