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
It is like what would happen if one had his hands gloved with loadstone, and, placing them on a table of iron, should lift it from the ground.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
A loadstone put on the place where the pain is, is beautiful in the rheumatiz.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)
The human body, moreover, according to his notions, possessed properties analogous to the loadstone, and presenting an opposed polarity, subject to various modifications, which either strengthened or weakened it.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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