- a variation of lodestone.
loadstone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of loadstone
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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
Cross, sometimes used of the end that has not been touched and excited by a loadstone, though in many instruments both ends are excited by the appropriate termini of the stone.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
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
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 A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
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