hornstone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hornstone
1720–30; translation of German Hornstein
Example Sentences
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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 Sir Charles Lyell
The shales become dense, highly crystalline rocks of a "hornstone" type, with porphyritic developments of silicate minerals.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
Masses, and in some instances nodules, of hornstone, resembling true flint, are found imbedded in it; yet it is not to be confounded with the chalk formation.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Another of the dikes of the north-east of Ireland has converted a mass of red sandstone into hornstone.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
Obsidian, hornstone, and several kinds of laminated feldspathic rocks, are associated with the trachyte.
From Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin
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