Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name once commonly applied in Worcestershire, England, to fossil oyster-shells of the genus Gryphæa from the Jurassic rocks.
- noun The top stone of the gable-end of a house.
- noun A hard, smooth, flinty gritstone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) The top stone of the gable end of a house.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture The top
stone of thegable end of ahouse . - noun UK, dialect
ganister , a kind ofsandstone
Etymologies
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crow + stone?
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