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Stonebrash

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A name given in Wiltshire to the subsoil of the north-western border, consisting of a reddish calcareous loam, mingled with flat stones; a soil made of small stones or broken rock.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Stone Blind
Stone Cold
Stone Dead
Stone Jug
Stone Soup or St. Bernard’s Soup
Stone Still
Stone of the Broken Treaty
Stone of Stumbling
Stone of Tongues
Stones
Stonebrash
Stonehenge
Stonewall Jackson
Stony Arabia
Stool of Repentance
Stops
Store
Stork
Storks Law or Lex Ciconaria
Storm in a Teapot
Storms