pudding stone

noun British Geology.

Nearby words

puckout, puckster, pud, pudding, pudding club, pudding stone, pudding-pipe tree, puddinghead, puddingwife, puddle, puddle-jumper

Also pud·ding·stone

[poo d-ing-stohn] /ˈpʊd ɪŋˌstoʊn/.

Origin of pudding stone

First recorded in 1745–55

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Examples from the Web for pudding stone

They are built of blocks of pudding-stone, originally well jointed, but now much weathered.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6|Various
The ground presents a great many friable rocks of pudding-stone, distributed in irregular strata.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure
The strata here descend to the bottom of the river, which is above the place of the pudding-stone and vertical strata.
Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4)|James Hutton
The rocks are pudding-stone and sandstone, and belong to the Porcupine Mountain development.
Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers|Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

When the pebbles are rounded the conglomerate is a pudding-stone.
Roman Mosaics|Hugh Macmillan

British Dictionary definitions for pudding stone

pudding stone

noun

a conglomerate rock in which there is a difference in colour or composition between the pebbles and the matrix

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pudding stone

noun British Geology.

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British Dictionary definitions for pudding stone

pudding stone

noun