loadstone

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loadstone (plural loadstones)

  1. Alternative form of lodestone
    • 1818, Thomas Brown, Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect, third edition, page 83:
      [M]agnetic action [] is the subsequence of the motion of iron to the approach of a loadstone.

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