Definition of Topstones

1. Noun. (plural of topstone) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Topstones

1. topstone [n] - See also: topstone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Topstones

topsman
topsmen
topsoil
topsoiled
topsoiling
topsoils
topspin
topspinning
topspins
topspun
topstitch
topstitched
topstitches
topstitching
topstone
topstones
topsy-turvier
topsy-turviest
topsy-turvily
topsy-turvy
topsy-turvydom
topsy-turvyness
topsy turvy
topt
topwater
topwork
topworked
topworking
topworks
toquake

Literary usage of Topstones

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

1. Report on Manuscripts in Various Collections by Great Britain (1904)
"... and four of the topstones for the ... and Hence all this weke about five of the topstones and the freeze of the ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1858)
"These topstones, and probably the layer next under them, had all fallen into the cave before the miner opened it; some being so large that he could not ..."

3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1858)
"These topstones, and probably the layer next under them, had all fallen into the cave before the miner opened it ; some being so large that he could not ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1851)
"... smaller circular stone fitting into it, and pierced, as in the topstones, with a hole in the centre, through which the grain was thrown into trie mill. ..."

5. Orations of British Orators: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches edited by Richard Garnett (1900)
"Not practical inferences at the basis and doctrines as the topstones ; not metaphors in the foundations, and propositions at the summit ; not the more ..."

6. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871)
"If you are laying right foundations, though you may not build on them, other men shall, and the topstones shall yet go up with shoutings of, " Grace, ..."

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