crowstone

noun

crowstone

noun

Etymology From crow + stone?

1

UK, Dialectal Ganister, a kind of sandstone.

Yoredale Sandstones […] Large quarries in the "crowstone," as the rock is locally calld, may also be seen in Ratcliffe Wood. […] along Hollin Lane, where the crowstone is again largely quarried.1866, Memoirs, page 67:

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