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tile +‎ stone

Noun

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tilestone (plural tilestones)

  1. (geology) A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
  2. A tile made of stone.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tilestone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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