Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A flat slab of stone used as a paving material.
- n. An evenly layered sedimentary rock that can be split into paving stones.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A grit or sandstone naturally separating in layers of suitable thickness for flagging; any rock which splits or is capable of being readily split into tabular plates or flags. Usually the layers are parallel to the bedding or stratification of the rock; but there are cases in which the lamination of the material available for flagging is the result of cleavage or jointing.
- n. A flat stone used in paving.
Wiktionary
- n. A flat, rectangular piece of rock or stone used for paving or roofing.
- n. One of several types of rock easily split and suitable for making flagstones.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See flag, a stone.
WordNet 3.0
- n. stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
Examples
“I followed it until it passed through a natural bottleneck, then improvised a deadfall trap by prying a flagstone from the ground, which was not quite frozen, and whittling a trigger from dead sticks.”
“Laja comes in three common types: Laja de Sous is a local flagstone which is the least expensive but rather thin at times.”
“The concrete grinding on the adult pool is complete and they appear to be laying some kind of flagstone down; I only saw one guy doing over the last 4 days, so unless he gets some help, hard to see how this will be complete by month's end.”
“By the way, I do not mean that the sons carry on the "flagstone" business), "and he owned tew or t'ree boots and stored 'em hisself.”
“Look at these carpets," she says as we trundle along the ancient flagstone floors traversing antique Persian rugs.”
The Guardian: Maggie Alphonsi the ambassador changing attitudes to women's game
“The 10,000-square-foot home is on 500 acres of land in Calistoga and includes three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, a guesthouse and caretaker's unit, a private pond, a bocce ball court, an olive farm, a skeet-shooting range, a professional grade equestrian stable, a full-size basketball court and a sun-drenched pool surrounded by flagstone and offering an unbelievable view of Knights Valley.”
The Huffington Post: PHOTOS: Joe Montana's Amazing Wine Country Home
“Houlihan Lawrence A large flagstone terrace overlooks a private lake.”
“There's a large flagstone terrace that overlooks the lake.”
“Woodstock Bookshop 23 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxon OX20 1TH, 01993 812760With its beautiful bay window and flagstone floor, this could be the quintessential English bookshop, so it's surprising to learn that it's only functioned as such for the past three years.”
“Despite the Cotswold stone, Dickensian shopfront and flagstone floors, the books spilling out from every corner will bring you right back to the present.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flagstone’.
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set phasers to...
you name the setting
I've tuned mine to be gentler and kinder
following suit is not mandatory but would be appreciatedcoddle, confuse, flummox, tap, furrow, instigate, invigorate, punnify, logical, must... act... be..., bowdlerise, laughing gas and 435 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (concrete)
foodstuff, banknote, crankshaft, earphone, fibreboard, fishplate, forklift, glassware, guardrail, handicraft, headband, kitchenware and 181 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (F)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
faery, fairy cross, fairy ring, falcon, fare-thee-well, farewell-summer, farthing, faun, fawn, felicitous, felicity, fencing and 109 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Hampsteader's list
Just some words i like . . .
bilkirkegaard, frost, flaxen, snow, quoin, quern, westering, deer, antler, solstice, autumn, autumnal and 114 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Architecture
awning, bay, bulwark, molding, mullioned, plinth, lintel, pergola, trellis, scaffold, bower, messuage and 14 more...
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The Crow Road
Words encountered while reading Iain Banks's terrific "The Crow Road"
machair, brindle, nimrod, cullen skink, lochan, the kyles of bute, kip, gateaux blaster, condign, percussive cremation, ballast mound, braw and 71 more...
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