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the original tool, weapon, and gravestone — humanity's first and final companion
means A hard, solid piece of mineral matter, smaller than a boulder, found loose in the earth or worked into walls, tools, and gravestones.
from From Old English 'stān,' part of a deep Germanic family — German 'Stein,' Dutch 'steen,' Old Norse 'steinn' — all tracing back to a Proto-Germanic '*stainaz.' Beyond that it likely goes to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to thicken' or 'stiffen,' the same idea that hardened milk into a curd and water into a frozen mass: stone as the world made stiff and permanent.
- oldest tools
- Stone tools date back 3.3 million years
- living rock
- Stromatolites are stone built by ancient bacteria
- weight
- A British stone equals fourteen pounds exactly
- deep time
- Granite forms miles below ground over millennia
- rolling
- Moving stones gathers no moss, proverbially
stone of scone — scottish coronation stone, stolen from westminster abbey in 1950 by scottish nationalists
rosetta stone — egyptian artifact from 196 bce that unlocked hieroglyphic decryption
stone of destiny — same as stone of scone, legendary block used in scottish and irish coronations