loadstone
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How to use loadstone in a sentence
They are the moral loadstone of the remarkably strong Muslim home, where hierarchy reigns supreme.
A Cremona Violin is, to a rich amateur, a loadstone that is sure to attract the shining metal from the depths of his purse.
Violins and Violin Makers | Joseph PearceWilliam Barlowe, died; celebrated as the discoverer of the nature and properties of the loadstone.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThe sand of the beach of those islands is iron, and is as easily attracted by the loadstone as steel filings.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria GrahamOn the northern side, there is a door fastened up with a piece of wood in the form of a large loadstone.
Our Churches and Chapels | Atticus
There is in the province, about 100 miles south of Chihuahua, a mountain or hill of loadstone.
The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume II (of 3) | Elliott Coues
British Dictionary definitions for loadstone
/ (ˈləʊdˌstəʊn) /
a variant spelling of lodestone
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