ragstone
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of ragstone
C14: from rag 4 + stone
Example Sentences
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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
St. Saviour's Church, built of ragstone, is at the corner of Eton and Provost Roads; it is in Early English style, consecrated 1856.
From Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
This small addition for this specified purpose is recognized as legitimate, but the employment of various cheap materials such as ragstone and blast-furnace slag, sometimes added as diluents or make-weights, is adulteration and therefore fraudulent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
The Ragged Churches, we suppose, will be built of ragstone; the pulpit-cushion, the altar-cloth, will be all rags.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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
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