pumice stone

English

Alternative forms

• pumy stone [16th–17th c.]

Noun

pumice stone (countable and uncountable, plural pumice stones)

1. A piece of pumice
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     in the midst a little riuer plaide / Emongst the pumy stones, which seemd to plaine / With gentle murmure, that his course they did restraine.

2. pumice (substance)

Translations

piece of pumice or collective noun

• German: Bimsstein (de) m
• Maltese: ħaffiefa f
• Spanish: piedra pómez (es) f, pumita (es) f, pómez (es) f, jal m (Mexico)