pudding stone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pudding stone
First recorded in 1745–55
Example Sentences
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The Rudges still did not know who set out the mysterious stones, but they doggedly followed the pudding stone trail across eastern England.
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The Rudges believe that the ancient Tardenoisians laid out the pudding stone trail to guide them to their flint mines.
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Their scientific curiosity aroused, Professor & Mrs. Rudge began scouting the area, soon came across another pudding stone.
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A farmer told Mrs. Rudge that the people who built the church brought the pudding stone down from a hill, and three times the devil carried the stone back to its lone hilltop.
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Leaving Wawa at daybreak on the 30th March, the travellers passed over a woody country, and at length entered a range of low rocky hills, composed of pudding stone.
From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Huish, Robert
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