- a variation of lodestone.
loadstone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of loadstone
Example Sentences
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This week, the rookie receiver Kadarius Toney hobbled off with an ankle injury, a week after his 189-yard game against Dallas showed he could be a loadstone in the receiver rotation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2021
“In the current environment, wage growth needs to be a major factor, maybe even a loadstone for the Fed, when it’s deciding to raise rates.”
From US News ● Feb. 24, 2015
Thus happy they dwelt in a rural domain, Uninstructed in commerce, unpractised in gain, 'Till, taught by the loadstone to traverse the seas, Columbus came over, that bold Genoese.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau
This known, it needs no telling why Reginald Trevor was attracted thither; only to specify which of the two girls was the loadstone that drew him.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
A Cremona Violin is, to a rich amateur, a loadstone that is sure to attract the shining metal from the depths of his purse.
From Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Pearce
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