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FLAGSTONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flagstone mean? 

FLAGSTONE (noun)
  The noun FLAGSTONE has 1 sense:

1. stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stonesplay

  Familiarity information: FLAGSTONE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLAGSTONE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

flag; flagstone

Hypernyms ("flagstone" is a kind of...):

paving stone (a stone used for paving)


 Context examples 


In this space lay a large and heavy flagstone with a rusted iron ring in the centre to which a thick shepherd’s-check muffler was attached.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How vividly I call to mind the damp about the house, the green cracked flagstones in the court, an old leaky water-butt, and the discoloured trunks of some of the grim trees, which seemed to have dripped more in the rain than other trees, and to have blown less in the sun!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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