The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woodstone \Wood"stone`\, n. (Min.) A striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in appearance.
Wiktionary
n. (context mineralogy English) A striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in appearance.
Wikipedia
Woodstone is a hamlet in County Durham. It neighbours the larger villages of Fencehouses and Burnmoor. The local towns are Chester-le-Street and Houghton-le-Spring.
It originally was named Little Lumley, being only a short journey from Great Lumley and consisted of 5 streets of houses, Finchale Terrace, High Row, Middle Row, Lower Row and Woodstone Terrace, which were built as housing for the now disused '6 pit' mine, in the area.
Recently the addition of a large estate built by a housing company on the site of the former brick works has expanded the village.
The only amenities in the village are the Athena beauty salon, and the Fencehouses community centre.
Category:Villages in County Durham
Usage examples of "woodstone".
We heaved it open and picked a piece of jagged cast metal off the linoleum and laid it politely on the woodstone drain board, beside about nine empty gin bottles.
On the woodstone drain board stood the remains of somebody's breakfast, mud at the bottom of a cup, a burnt crust of bread, crumbs on a board, a yellow slime of melted butter down the slope of a saucer, a smeared knife and a granite coffee pot that smelled like sacks in a hot barn.
On the woodstone drain board stood the remains of somebodys breakfast, mud at the bottom of a cup, a burnt crust of bread, crumbs on a board, a yellow slime of melted butter down the slope of a saucer, a smeared knife and a granite coffee pot that smelled like sacks in a hot barn.