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marlstone

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Word definitions for marlstone in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context geology English) marl

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marlstone \Marl"stone`\, n. (Geol.) A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl [syn: marlite ]

Usage examples of marlstone.

Post Office authorities to Marlstone to deal with the flood of messages.

Jones to wire our local correspondent very urgently, to drop everything and get down to Marlstone at once.

Stock, of Marlstone, was at once sent for, and will conduct the post-mortem examination.

He had then returned in the car to Marlstone, where he had shown great amazement and horror at the news of the murder.

If he had left Marlstone in the car at the hour when he is supposed to have done sobetween 10 and 10.

Northumberland, an average medium-power carto get to Southampton by half-past six unless it left Marlstone by midnight at latest.

You have troubled me ever since the first time I saw youand you did not know itas you sat under the edge of the cliff at Marlstone, and held out your arms to the sea.

Marlowe was cool and in complete possession of himself, a man different indeed from the worn-out, nervous being Trent remembered at Marlstone a year and a half ago.

You say that to get to Southampton by half-past six in that car, under the conditions, a man must, even if he drove like a demon, have left Marlstone by twelve at latest.

I returned to Marlstone, and faced your friend the detective with such nerve as I had left.

Water slapped against the marlstone along the banks in a steady rhythm.

All day and all night there’s the roar of the extractor furnaces, heating and grinding the marlstone to get the kerogen out of it, and the rumble of the long-line conveyors, dragging the spent shale away to pile it somewhere.

All day and all night there's the roar of the extractor furnaces, heating and grinding the marlstone to get the kerogen out of it, and the rumble of the long-line conveyors, dragging the spent shale away to pile it somewhere.