The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moorstone \Moor"stone`\, n. A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
Wiktionary
n. A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
Usage examples of "moorstone".
By the side of the road, where the track from the top of the common crossed it at right angles and ran through a gate past the narrow wood, was a thin mound of turf, six feet by one, with a moorstone to the west, and on it someone had thrown a blackthorn spray and a handful of bluebells.
Buildings rose all round like the high sides of the Teign Valley, rugged and misshapen like moorstone cliffs.
The storm sounded like ten thousand moorstone slabs being fractured all at once, and he was convinced that the roof must collapse.
There the earth was so filled with moorstone and peat that only stunted trees and the poor grasses could survive.
The walls were of solid moorstone, and a good fire burned at the hearth in the middle of the floor.
In the middle of the floor was the hearth, with a cone of timbers smoldering quietly inside a ring of moorstone blocks.
Even the churches, ancient chapels under moorstone slate roofs in shades of tawny yellow and green and russet, seemed gaunt and forbidding.