Definitions
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- noun A conglomerate.
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- noun a
conglomerate stone consisting ofpebbles surrounded bycement
Etymologies
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Examples
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One hill I passed over I found to be composed of puddingstone, that is to say, a conglomeration of many kinds of stone mostly rounded and mixed up in a mass, and formed by the smothered bubblings of some ancient and ocean-quenched volcano.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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This portmanteau puddingstone of indigestible bureaucracy leaves enough room for the true major driving force of
ZDNet UK Highlights Leader 2009
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I wonder whether the boys that live in Roxbury and Dorchester are ever moved to tears or filled with silent awe as they look upon the rocks and fragments of "puddingstone" abounding in those localities.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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I wonder whether the boys who live in Roxbury and Dorchester are ever moved to tears or filled with silent awe as they look upon the rocks and fragments of "puddingstone" abounding in those localities.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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I wonder whether the boys who live in Roxbury and Dorchester are ever moved to tears or filled with silent awe as they look upon the rocks and fragments of "puddingstone" abounding in those localities.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Katie looks out the window at the front yard, the area Olmsted called the Hollow: the gray lumps of Roxbury puddingstone, the vines, the looping path.
The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010
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Yet a lump of puddingstone is a thing to look at, to think about, to study over, to dream upon, to go crazy with, to beat one's brains out against.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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These are very largely volcanic ashes mixed with beds of gravel, which have become consolidated into conglomerate, and between the ashes of the rocks and the coarse conglomerate or puddingstone rock, there are all sorts of intermediate varieties.
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It is well carefully to observe these singular lava puddingstone masses, for, according to the theory of John Le Conte, the eminent physicist, recounted in another chapter, these were the restraining masses that made the Lake at one time eighty or a hundred feet higher than it is to-day.
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Yet a lump of puddingstone is a thing to look at, to think about, to study over, to dream upon, to go crazy with, to beat one's brains out against.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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