definition of the word stone

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Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg.
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From Old English stān, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stai-. Cognate with Scots stane, Dutch steen, German Stein, Swedish sten, Danish sten, Norwegian stein and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek στῖον (stion), “‘pebble’”), Russian стена (stená), “‘wall’”).

Singular
stone

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural stones

stone (countable and uncountable; plural stones)

(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
A small piece of stone.
A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
(UK) (plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms
- 1843: Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds. — The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202.
- 1882: Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England Volume 4, p. 209.
(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

a peach stone
(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

kidney stone
(board games)A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
(color) A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

stone colour:
(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

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