Crossword clues for flagstone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
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.
WordNet
n. stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones [syn: flag]
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 from Old Norse flaga meaning slab or chip.
Flagstone is a sedimentary rock that is split into layers along bedding planes. Flagstone is usually a form of a sandstone composed of feldspar and quartz and is arenaceous in grain size (0.16 mm – 2 mm in diameter). The material that binds flagstone is usually composed of silica, calcite, or iron oxide. The rock color usually comes from these cementing materials. Typical flagstone colors are red, blue, and buff, though exotic colors exist.
Flagstone is quarried in places with bedded sedimentary rocks with fissile bedding planes. Examples include Arizona flagstone and Pennsylvania Bluestone.
Around the thirteenth century, the ceilings, walls and floors in European architecture became more ornate. Anglo-Saxons in particular used flagstones as flooring materials in the interior rooms of castles and other structures. Lindisfarne Castle in England and Muchalls Castle (14th century) in Scotland are among many examples of buildings with surviving flagstone floors.
Flagstone may refer to:
- Flagstone, a flat stone, usually used for paving slabs or walkways, patios, fences and roofing, or for memorials, headstones, facades and other constructions
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.