sandstone

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.

   It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.

2. 2
   noun

   a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)

3. 3
   name

   A small town and local government area (the Shire of Sandstone) in the Mid West region, Western Australia.

4. 4
   name

   A place in the United States:

Etymology

From Middle English sandston, from Old English *sandstān, from Proto-West Germanic *sandastain (“sandstone, chisel, gravel”), equivalent to sand + stone. Cognate with West Frisian sânstien (“sandstone”), Saterland Frisian Soundsteen (“sandstone”), Dutch zandsteen (“sandstone”), German Low German Sandsteen (“sandstone”), German Sandstein (“sandstone”), Danish sandsten (“sandstone”), Swedish sandsten (“sandstone”), Icelandic sandsteinn (“sandstone”).