ragstone

British  

/ ˈræɡˌstəʊn /

noun

1. Also called: rag.   ragg.  a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building

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Etymology

Origin of ragstone

C14: from _rag ⁴ + _stone

Example Sentences

Grimes selected the site of some blitzed office buildings, dug a trench and found the face of a solid wall made of Kentish ragstone, the Romans' favorite building material.

From Time Magazine Archive

Henry V. granted the City free passages for four boats and four carts, to bring lime, ragstone, and freestone for the works.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

There is a fine medieval fifteenth-century bridge at Yalding across the Beult, long, fairly level, with deeply embayed cutwaters of rough ragstone.

From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

This is a structure of Kentish ragstone in a Gothic style with small steeple.

From Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir

Rowley Rag.—The fusibility of basalt having been theoretically demonstrated, Mr. Henry Adcock, C.E., in 1851 took out letters patent for the manufacture of a number of articles from the Rowley ragstone.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.