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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the South Staffordshire coal-field, dikes of diabasie rock which there intersect the coal-measures.
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Piedra-branca is a rock all covered with sea-fowl, and so bedunged as to make its top appear white, whence its name, which signifies the white-rock, or stone.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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