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Definition of Moorstone

Moorstone
Moorstone Moor"stone`, n. A species of English granite, used as a building stone.

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- Scotland built her for the Royal Navy, who commissioned her as HMDYC Moorstone in 1919. In 1948, she was decommissioned and in 1951, she was sold to...
- soundtrack) from Murder at Moorstones Manor. All of the episodes, except Tomkinson's Schooldays and Murder at Moorstones Manor, have optional laugh-free...
- posts and to a certain extent for building (such material is known as moorstone). Granite quarrying only became reasonably productive when gunpowder became...
- known as moorstone, instead. By the later Middle Ages the masons were adept enough at dressing moorstone to use it in church building. Moorstone blocks...
- Kutuzov); Crown Court; Last of the Summer Wine; Ripping Yarns (Murder at Moorstone's Manor); Upstairs, Downstairs; Poldark (1975); Fall of Eagles (as Russian...
- a late 15th- or early 16th-century slack-head doorway made of granite moorstone that had been "laboriously carved" into a moulding. In the long part of...
- "The Legion of the Living" 1977 Ripping Yarns Dr. Farson 1.04 "Murder at Moorstones Manor" 1977 The Sunday Drama Gilbert Neilson 1.14 "Caledonian Cascade"...
- Gall "Ghost of Venice" 1977 Ripping Yarns Lady Chiddingfold "Murder at Moorstones Manor" 1979 The Old Crowd Betty TV film 1980 Company and Co Barbara Harris...
- placed on a modern rough hewn shaft which has been set into a medieval moorstone slab base. There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built is 1872 and Sunday...
- the Omaran Saga and Star Requiem series, and his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants. Adrian Cole was born in 1949 in Plymouth, Devon...