moor-stone

The jurats being met to the number sometimes of two or three hundred, in this desolate place, are quite exposed to the weather and have no other place to sit upon but a moor-stone bench, and no refreshments but what they bring with them; for this reason the steward immediately adjourns the court to Tavistock, or some other stannary town.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various

Hard near the Docks, a large red building with facings of Cornish moor-stone, a bank on the ground-floor, and the Exchange on the first.

The Purple Cloud 1906

After the solid was completed, other five courses of moor-stone were laid, which weighed about eighty-six tons.

The Story of the Rock 1859

Here a large crane had been fixed, and two of the men were up there working the windlass, by which the heavy blocks of moor-stone were raised to their places.

The Story of the Rock 1859

He resolved, therefore, to counteract this by means of _weight_; and, in order to do this, he next piled five courses of Cornish moor-stone above the timber courses.

The Story of the Rock 1859

[5] On a bleak moor, called Monstone Edge, in this hamlet, is a huge moor-stone or outlier, which (though part of it was broken off and removed some years ago) still retains the name of Monstone.

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821

The soil here was found to be quite like to what had elsewhere been found, and the rocks and stones consisted of granite, moor-stone, and brown talcous clay-stone.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784