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china stone

noun

  1. a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
  2. any of certain limestones having a very fine grain and smooth texture
“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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Example Sentences

This was granted by Champion, but with this singular restriction—that, although they were allowed to use a certain quantity of china clay and china stone, they were not to make porcelain.

In this way the rotten granite or china stone, used in pottery, originates; and over considerable areas kaolin replaces the felspar and forms valuable sources of china clay.

A great part of the surface in this neighbourhood has been opened for china clay and china stone, but by far the most important mine is that of Carglaze, once worked for tin.

The Bristol porcelain, like that of Plymouth, was always a true felspathic porcelain resembling the Chinese, but made from the china clay and china stone of Cornwall.

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