Pipestone

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A heat-hardened, compacted, red or pink clay stone used by Native American peoples for making tobacco pipes.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A hard, red clay used by Native Americans for making tobacco pipes
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. catlinite.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as catlinite.
  • n. The cast-iron prism lying on the back-stone of a lead-ore hearth and containing an opening for the twyer.
    • Word Usage
    "Between here and the James river is the area where the Natives of all the nations in the West 'mined' the pipestone Catlinite or "pipestone", a form of red talc."
    Variant
    catlinite   
     
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