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Definition of "pudding-stone" []

  • A rock made up of rounded and water-worn debris of other rocks, a considerable proportion of the pieces being large enough to be called pebbles or cobbles. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "pudding-stone" in a sentence
  • "You can lie out on the naked rocks and look like a piece of pudding-stone."
  • "Considerable masses of vitrified matter are found in the second rampart, under which is the natural rock, chiefly granite, with some breciæ, or pudding-stone, composed of red granite, pebbles, quartz, &c. in a cement of clay and quartose matter."
  • "The rock of this hill is a fine pudding-stone, of flint, quartz, and red sand-stone; the only specimen of the kind I have met with in Nubia."