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rune-stone

American  
[roon-stohn] / ˈrunˌstoʊn /

noun

  1. a stone bearing one or more runic inscriptions.


Etymology

Origin of rune-stone

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

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Then, in three weeks—after yet more soaking, salicylic acid, and also some pumice-stone scrubbing—the patient comes back for another round of liquid nitrogen.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2022

The lava was loose; all bubbly with holes like a piece of rotten pumice-stone.

From The White Man's Foot by Allen, Grant

In another tent the women were dressing the skins, either with a pumice-stone, or with the before-described toothed instrument, which was here entirely of iron.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp

To remove this water-vapor the air is passed through a tower filled with pumice-stone drenched with sulphuric acid.

From Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Benedict, Francis Gano

Then they lay on the sand ten yards from it, and took shots at it with bits of pumice-stone.

From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

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