dripstone

English

Dripstone (water filter)

Etymology

From drip +‎ stone.

Noun

dripstone (plural dripstones)

1. (architecture) A protective moulding over a door or window that allows rain to drip away from the structure.

   Synonyms: hoodmold, headmold, throating, drip, watershoot

2. A water filter in which impurities are removed by running water through a porous stone.
3. (geology) Stalactites and stalagmites collectively.

Translations

protective moulding

• Bulgarian: корниз (bg) m (korniz), навес (bg) m (naves)
• Finnish: tippukivi (fi)
• Italian: gocciolatoio (it) m
• Romanian: lăcrimar (ro) n, picurar (ro) n

stalactites and stalagmites collectively

• Bulgarian: сталактон m (stalakton)
• Czech: krápník m
• Faroese: dropasteinur m
• Finnish: tippukivi (fi)
• German: Tropfstein (de) m
• Hungarian: cseppkő (hu)
• Persian: کلفخشنگ (kalafaxšang)
• Swedish: droppsten (sv) c

Anagrams

• redpoints