Home › Words › B › bedstonebedstone/ˈbɛd.stoʊn/bedstone means A large, heavy, flat stone used to support a column or similar member, or as the lower stone of an oil mill.bedstone is pronounced /ˈbɛd.stoʊn/.EtymologyFrom bed + stone.nounA large, heavy, flat stone used to support a column or similar member, or as the lower stone of an oil mill.e.g.“After demolition the girders for half the new structure were erected on bedstones already built on the abutments behind the springings of the old arch.” — 1941 February, “Bridge demolition by lifting”, in Railway Magazine, pages 74–75:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.backstone 72% match — A stone at the rear of something. vs bedstone →bondstone 68% match — A stone for bonding masonry to a similar backing; a stone that reaches a considerable distance into, or entirely through a wall, for the purpose of binding it together. vs bedstone →throughstone 67% match — A bondstone. vs bedstone →footstone 65% match — A gravestone placed at the foot of a grave; typically smaller than a headstone, and frequently resembling a large cobblestone. vs bedstone →datestone 63% match — An embedded stone with a date carved into it. vs bedstone →ballstone 63% match — A rounded mass of unstratified limestone found within stratified limestone beds. vs bedstone →archstone 63% match — A stone forming part of an arch. vs bedstone →boundstone 63% match — A kind of calcareous rock sediment where the original components have been bound together after deposition. vs bedstone →