Definition of "agates" []

• Plural form of agate. (noun)

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• "Stones, such as agates, which are found on the sea beach, or any stone which is required to be polished, is to be first ground down to a rough surface, then polished by successive rubbings of first, second, and third grit-stones of different degrees of fineness, lastly"
• "From Germany we get the finest "agates," the beauty and value of which every lover of the game knows."
• "And south they went, along roads that steadily grew worse, through the dairy country of Langlois and through thick pine forests to Port Orford, where Saxon picked jeweled agates on the beach while Billy caught enormous rockcod."