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
“Iron is not the loadstone; but by rubbing it with a loadstone we make it, in its turn, attract iron.”
From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Leonard, Arthur Glyn
Declinatorium, a piece of Iron capable of turning about an axis, excited by a loadstone, in a declination instrument.
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
On Mutation of Verticity and of Magnetick Properties, or on alteration in the power excited by a loadstone.
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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