Definitions for freestone

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freestone free·stone

Spelling: [free-stohn]

IPA: /ˈfriˌstoʊn/

Freestone is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in freestone (eeefnorst).

Definitions for freestone

noun

1. a fruit having a stone to which the flesh does not cling, as certain peaches and plums.
2. the stone itself.
3. any stone, as sandstone, that can be freely worked or quarried, especially one that cuts well in all directions without splitting.

adjective

1. having a stone from which the flesh is easily separated.

Origin of freestone

1250-1300; Middle English freston (see free, stone); translation of Old French franche piere; see frank¹

Examples for freestone

I must go to Tenby one of these days, and walk that old walk to freestone.

Minerals; coal in large quantities, lime, sand and freestone.

It is a freestone, ripening in Michigan the last of September.

In East Devon much use was made of flints and of freestone from Beer.

Fruit of medium size, white; freestone; ripens the middle of July.

The variety is very prolific, bright yellow, and a freestone.

The freestone blocks at the foot of the wall are very large.

In Kentucky most of the sandstone quarried is known locally as "freestone."

The chest was of freestone, such as is common on Lincoln heath.

The colour of the freestone of which it is built is as fresh as that of the castle of Tarascon.