loadstone
[
lohd
-stohn]
/ˈloʊdˌstoʊn/
noun
1.
lodestone
.
Origin
1505-15;
earlier
load
lode
+
stone
Examples from the web for
loadstone
Now with this
loadstone
you may make magnets artificially.
British Dictionary definitions for
loadstone
loadstone
/
ˈləʊdˌstəʊn
/
noun
1.
a variant spelling of
lodestone
lodestone
/
ˈləʊdˌstəʊn
/
noun
1.
a rock that consists of pure or nearly pure magnetite and thus is naturally magnetic
a piece of such rock, which can be used as a magnet and which was formerly used as a primitive compass
2.
a person or thing regarded as a focus of attraction
Word Origin
C16: literally: guiding stone
loadstone
in Science
lodestone also loadstone
(lōd'stōn')
A piece of the mineral magnetite that acts like a magnet.