Definition of Burrstones

1. burrstone [n] - See also: burrstone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burrstones

burrock
burrocks
burros
burrow
burrowed
burrower
burrowers
burrowing
burrowing hairs
burrowing parrot
burrowing parrots
burrowlike
burrows
burrs
burrstone
burrstones (current term)
burry
burs
bursa
bursa achillis
bursa anserina
bursa aspiration
bursa bicipitoradialis
bursa cubitalis interossea
bursa fabricii
bursa infrahyoidea
bursa infrapatellaris profunda
bursa intermuscularis musculorum gluteorum
bursa intratendinea olecrani

Literary usage of Burrstones

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Economic Geology; Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures by David Page (1874)
"... is burrstone, a porous silicious rock from the tertiary formations of Europe and America. These burrstones are of various colours, whitish, ..."

2. Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures by David Page (1874)
"These burrstones are of various colours, whitish, yellowish, and reddish brown, are almost pure silica, with just sufficient calcareous matter to give them ..."

3. The Student's Handbook of Stratigraphical Geology by Alfred John Jukes-Browne (1902)
"... and shelly limestones, the latter of sands with calcareous burrstones. But near Stainton St. John these beds change rapidly and appear to be replaced by ..."

4. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1860)
"... be remanufactured; Brazil wood, crude brimstone, and flour of sulphur, bullion, burrstones, unwrought; ..."

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