Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Granite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mining.) A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
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- noun UK, mining A
decomposed granite , forming amass ofgravel , as intin lodes inCornwall .
Etymologies
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Compare Armorican grouan gravel, Cornish grow gravel, sand.
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