- 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
Item, a magnet-stone, commonly called a loadstone, of great virtue.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
Perhaps they will read this to him: Some turn the wheel of electricity, some suspend rings to a loadstone and find that what they did yesterday they can do again to-day.
From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
The loadstone has parts distinct in their natural power, & poles conspicuous for their property.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
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