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Often used as building material
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fieldstone
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stone found in fields, as used for buildings, 1797, from field (n.) + stone (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A stone found in fields and used for building.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally. Collections of fieldstones which have been removed from arable land or pasture to allow for more effective agriculture ...
Usage examples of fieldstone.
Vess walks through the soggy grass to the old log house and climbs a set of fieldstone steps to the front porch.
Escort charged through, slewing snow as it passed the fieldstone fences on either side.
Sliding his dreggan from its scabbard, he looked down to the wall of fieldstone that marked the entrance to the Caves.
There were differences, though: The entire cottage was on a bigger scale, and Oscar had built a magnificent fieldstone fireplace at the opposite end of the main room.
Through the live oak trees, I could see the shingled roofline and the fieldstone chimney that Oscar had built with his own hands.
By the by, how come neither you nor Emonda told me that Fieldstone had visited Delmere with our cousins after the governor passed away?
She saw the stream wound through a field to pass near a group of thatched cottages and a couple of larger fieldstone houses, all silent and deserted.
She thought of the old fieldstone houses standing next to the cottages down by the stream.
On the far side of the court they found a rambling old house made of fieldstone, with delicate leaded windows and tiny little cupolas.
Then, after confirming that the body detail had finished its work and gone to join the rest of the foragers, they went down to the fieldstone pillars marking the entrance to Gaiten Academy.
On its rim were two churches, the courthouse, the public library, and a huge block of fieldstone that had once been the Klingenschoen mansion.
The two-story Victorian home had a lot a charm from the scalloped-shaped shingles to the fieldstone flower boxes.
The huge, fieldstone fireplace smelled dank as it sat, waiting for the winter.
Its bright black flue pipe fits snugly into the smudged old fireplace of ugly fieldstones.
They had all seemed terribly sad to Winnie when she found them all still here, divorced from their picture window, their fieldstone fireplace, exiled with their owners to this dowdy place with its gumwood china cabinets and cabbage-rose wallpaper.