freestone

Noun

1. Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
   • Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital. - 1749, Henry...
   • It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with...
   • The exterior walls are of freestone, and have a smooth, neat appearance. - 1955 June, C. L. Mowat, “The Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 378:
2. A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.

   Coordinate Terms: clingstone