Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A very hard, dense, even-textured, silica-bearing sedimentary rock used in whetstones.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A very hard, fine-grained rock, used for hones: same as
honestone . It is a very silicious variety of clay slate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A form of
chert , very rich inquartz , that has been used to makewhetstones
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_whetstones_ are produced largely from a rock called "novaculite" in
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The Central Mountain Ranges are dominated by east-west trending ridges that are characteristically steep and rugged and underlain by resistant sandstone and novaculite (chert).
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The sharp, folded and faulted ridges of the Ouachita Mountains (36) are mostly covered in pine – upland hardwood forest and underlain by Paleozoic sandstone, shale, and novaculite (chert).
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The Ouachitas are made up of ridges, hills, and valleys formed by the erosion of folded and faulted Paleozoic sandstone, shale, and chert, known locally as novaculite.
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In Arkansas, Ecoregion 36e is confined to Round Mountain in western Polk County, where it is underlain by sandstone and shale; novaculite (chert) is absent in contrast to the Central Mountain Ranges (36b).
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Ecoregion 36c is underlain by folded and faulted sandstone, shale, and novaculite (chert); the lithologic mosaic is distinct from the Athens Plateau (36a).
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These slates constitute a notable feature in the geology of the State, and, in addition to the interest which attaches to the numerous mines along its north-western border, they contain extensive beds of roofing-slates and turkey hones, (novaculite.)
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a cold steel, Laredo bowie, a flint knapping kit with a large novaculite biface and a trained peregrine falcon
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a cold steel, Laredo bowie, a flint knapping kit with a large novaculite biface and a trained peregrine falcon
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