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sandstone

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Etymology edit

From Middle English sandston, from Old English *sandstān, from Proto-West Germanic *sandastain (“sandstone, chisel, gravel”), equivalent to sand +‎ stone. Cognate with West Frisian sânstien (“sandstone”), Saterland Frisian Soundsteen (“sandstone”), Dutch zandsteen (“sandstone”), German Low German Sandsteen (“sandstone”), German Sandstein (“sandstone”), Danish sandsten (“sandstone”), Swedish sandsten (“sandstone”), Icelandic sandsteinn (“sandstone”).

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsændˌstəʊn/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsændˌstoʊn/

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sandstone (countable and uncountable, plural sandstones)

  1. A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32:
      It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.

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