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Webster 1913 Edition


Potstone

Pot′stoneˊ

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Noun.
(Min.)
A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

Webster 1828 Edition


Potstone

POT'STONE

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Noun.
Potstone appears to be indurated black talck, passing into serpentine. It has a curved and undulatingly lamellar structure, passing into slaty.
Potstone is of a greenish gray color. It occurs massive, or in granular concretions.
Potstone is a variety of steatite.

Definition 2024


potstone

potstone

English

Noun

potstone (countable and uncountable, plural potstones)

  1. (mineralogy) A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.