pumice stone
English
Alternative forms
- pumie stone, pumy stone [16th–17th c.]
Noun
pumice stone (countable and uncountable, plural pumice stones)
- A piece of pumice.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- in the midst a little riuer plaide / Emongst the pumy stones, which seemd to plaine / With gentle murmure, that his course they did restraine.
- Pumice (the substance).