abthainry
n. C2 Proficiency abthain·ry
n. a very old word for a type of small, round stone that is used to make a wall or a road. It is an old way of saying 'stone'.
n. a small, rounded stone used in the construction of walls or roads. An archaic term primarily found in historical geological or architectural contexts.
The old road was made of small abthainry.
Archaeologists discovered that the ancient walls were built using local abthainry rather than large blocks of granite.
The landscape was dotted with small heaps of abthainry, remnants of the stone that had been used to build the abandoned village during the late medieval period.