gritstoneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

gritstone (countable and uncountable, plural gritstones)

1. A form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.
   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:

     So Tom went to go down; and first he went down three hundred feet of steep heather, mixed up with loose brown grindstone, as rough as a file […]

   • 2020 April 8, Paul Bigland, “Rail's future revealing railway's past”, in Rail, page 38:

     Adjacent to the roundhouse, but a little further north towards Curzon Street, are the surprising remains of the wagon turntables for the goods shed. Unusually, these are made out of solid gritstone so survive pretty much intact.

参考

• gritstone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• rosetting