witches' stone (English, noun)
expansion: witches' stone (plural witches' stones)
Senses:
glosses: A small ledge jutting out of the chimney of a house, chiefly in Jersey or Guernsey, originally to stop rain seeping under the joins in a thatched roof, and later reinterpreted in folklore as a place for witches to rest.
glosses: An adder stone, a stone with a (natural) hole in it.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see witch, stone.
Forms:
form: witches' stones
tags: plural