lapstones

So far, in this respect, we have been at our worst -- possibly that's pretty bad -- but "lapstones" are likely to be of considerable variety of form, and something that is said to have fallen at sometime somewhere in the

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

The men who own and till the soil, who drive the mills, and hammer out their own iron and leather on their own anvils and lapstones ... are honest, intelligent, patriotic, independent, and brave.

The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement George Spring Merriam 1878