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loadstone

[ lohd-stohn ]

noun



loadstone

/ ˈləʊdˌstəʊn /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of lodestone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of loadstone1

1505–15; earlier load lode + stone
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Example Sentences

This week, the rookie receiver Kadarius Toney hobbled off with an ankle injury, a week after his 189-yard game against Dallas showed he could be a loadstone in the receiver rotation.

“In the current environment, wage growth needs to be a major factor, maybe even a loadstone for the Fed, when it’s deciding to raise rates.”

From US News

For Franz Liszt it was a loadstone of double power—the ideality of the place attracted him and its religion anchored his spiritual restlessness.

This prolongation may be compared to the radiation which leaps from the loadstone to reach a bit of iron and put it into movement.

It was in the beginning of the eighteenth century that various experiments were made with the loadstone in researches regarding electricity.

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