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pudding stone

American  
Also puddingstone

noun

British Geology.
  1. conglomerate.


pudding stone British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of pudding stone

First recorded in 1745–55

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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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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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Their scientific curiosity aroused, Professor & Mrs. Rudge began scouting the area, soon came across another pudding stone.

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When the sun had shone upon it many days and dried and hardened it, people called it pudding stone.

From Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children by Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette)

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