' [Je'1-ston.] Slate-stone ; a roofing-slate.
' [Je'1-ston.] Slate-stone ; a roofing-slate. Dev. (Hall.), Cor.' (s.v. Shale-stone), Cor.^ Cf. shelyng-stone.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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Containing or made up of stones.