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Flat paving slab
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flagstone
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He stumbled around the side of the house, over broken flagstones, toward a light shining above the back door. ▪ I asked what was the oldest part of the farm and was shown a flagstone path leading down to a valley. ▪ Joe Asnett ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flagstone ( flag ) is a generic flat stone , usually used for paving slabs or walkways, patios, fences and roofing. It may be used for memorials, headstones , facades and other constructions. The name derives from Middle English flagge meaning turf, perhaps ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A flat, rectangular piece of rock or stone used for paving or roofing. 2 One of several types of rock easily split and suitable for making flagstones.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flagstone \Flag"stone`\, n. A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag , a stone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"any rock which splits easily into flags," 1730, from flag (n.2) "flat, split stone" + stone (n.).
Usage examples of flagstone.
Take up one of the large flagstones behind the annealing oven, and dig a hole underneath it in the ground.
Constable if she might have a bit of garden space of her own, and after an early phase of profound shock and misgivings, the Constable eventually pulled up a few flagstones, exposing a small plot, and caused one of the Dovetail artisans to manufacture some copper window boxes and attach them to the cottage walls.
Always conscious of what he stood for, what he meant and ought to mean, Furber roughed the dark cloth of his coat with his fingernails and paced off the flagstones carefully.
Shirley, who packed more genuine desire to please people in her delicious skinny body than any two saints in the hagiology, should have laid down a big, flat flagstone of her own.
Broken flagstones were jumbled with broken roof slates under a carpet of leaves.
A flight of flagstone steps ran up from the driveway to a terrace and the narow strip of level ground that lay in front of the house.
He swooped Kat into his arms, whistled for Spunky, and then hurried down the flagstone walk that led to his residence.
It took its first tentative steps, toeless feet scraping dusty flagstones, its legs churning formlessness for an instant.
Fashion this in your mind: near-seamless flagstones, unmarred by age and of grey, almost black, stone.
A shriek of astounded terror accompanied his plunge to the flagstones below.
He followed in their wake and soon found himself in the long Galerie des Prisonniers, along the flagstones of which two days ago de Batz had followed his guide towards the lodgings of Heron.
Large flagstones of fine limestone and red breccia formed the pavement now, and every slab bore an inscription.
Its tone was rasping, as of the points of iron nails scraped across mortarless flagstones.
Undulating, mortarless flagstone walls of varying heights supported a series of planting beds that radiated away from the curving center walk like the lines on a topographic map.
Through the spirate leaves of the tintolive trees grappling with the hillside, she could see Kyp, dressed in Jedi robes, walking up the flagstone steps to the small pavilion she had found in her search for solitude.