freestone

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “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 porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.”

   “The exterior walls are of freestone, and have a smooth, neat appearance.”

2. (countable)A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname from Old English.
2. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States.
3. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas, United States.