before 1000; late Middle English fyyrstone, Old English fȳrstān. See fire, stone
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She pointed to a stall where a wizened little woman was grill-ing meat and onions on a hot firestone.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Ancaster stone has been chiefly employed, except in the roof, where the ribs of the vaulting are of Bath stone, the filling being made up of chalk and firestone.
From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George
And Noodle, touching them with the firestone ring to make the memory of things sweet to her, bent back the Princess's face, and let them fall under her closed lids.
From The Field of Clover by Housman, Laurence
It is yellow, and glittering, and like enough to the real metal,—but see—it is brittle, cat-gold, 'iron firestone.'
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John
But Eudena began to hammer the firestone against a flint.
From Tales of Space and Time by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Goodrich, Firestone, General Tire and Goodyear erected giant factories and mansions around town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
The theater’s debut exhibition will feature 102-year-old Holocaust survivor Renée Firestone.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Some people, like Jeremy, who was camping in the nearby Firestone Tire parking lot, just hung out during the day; others slept over.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
In the following three months, he went on to win The Open, the WGC-Bridgestone Championship at Firestone and then the US PGA at Valhalla - his fourth and final major to date.
From BBC ● May 15, 2024
As I walked through the entrance, I thought about Renee Firestone and Gerda Seifer, two Holocaust survivors who were visiting the museum with us.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
Bumpkin, Lumpkin, and Rumpkin struck the firestones together, and everyone cheered when they finally managed a spark.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
Even the fire, for there was a fire, was a solid mass of firestones; a glowing grateful of hard coal; if there was life in that, it was the life of mere existence.
From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan
A pot of cooking rice The three horses are the firestones or the three supports of the pot in the pottery stove; the bubbling is the crying.
From A Little Book of Filipino Riddles by Starr, Frederick
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