loggan stone

or logan stone

[ log-uhn ]

noun

1. rocking stone.

Word History and Origins

Origin of loggan stone¹

Variant of logging stone

Example Sentences

Leaving the Loggan Stone, we next shaped our course for the Land's End.

From Project Gutenberg

In the year 1824, a certain Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, then in command of a cutter stationed off the southern coast of Cornwall, was told of an ancient Cornish prophecy, that no human power should ever succeed in overturning the Loggan Stone.

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The Lieutenant was officially informed that his commission was in danger, unless he set up the Loggan Stone again in its proper place.

From Project Gutenberg

From Marazion we walked to Penzance, from Penzance to the beautiful coast scenery at Lamorna Cove, and thence to Trereen, celebrated as the halting place for a visit to one of Cornwall's greatest curiosities—the Loggan Stone.

From Project Gutenberg

You redouble your efforts—then turn round—and see the massy Loggan Stone, set in motion by nothing but your own pair of shoulders, slowly rocking backwards and forwards with an alternate ascension and declension, at the outer edges, of at least three inches.

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