snakestone

English

Etymology

From snake +‎ stone.

Noun

snakestone (countable and uncountable, plural snakestones)

1. A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.
2. (paleontology) An ammonite (because of its coiled form).
3. (India) A usually porous substance made from charred bones, earth, etc. and believed to cure snakebites.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “snakestone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)