hornstone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hornstone
1720–30; translation of German Hornstein
Example Sentences
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About ten miles N.E. of Great Bay de Noquet, we found flint, or hornstone, in small quantities in the limestone rocks.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Often they pitch their tent on the ice, and then cut such holes through it, using ice-chisels of metal when they can get copper or iron, but when not, employing tools of flint or hornstone.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The facing of the cloven surfaces was done by hammer-dressing, using rounded masses of quartzose hornstone, held in the hand without any handle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
On the summit I found hornstone and granular felspar.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas
Obsidian, hornstone, and several kinds of laminated feldspathic rocks, are associated with the trachyte.
From Volcanic Islands by Darwin, Charles
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