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

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)

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.

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

It is faced with Kentish ragstone, and was consecrated 1862.

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