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Meanings of gritstone in English

A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone.

Usage of gritstone in English
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The problem starts with a gritstone-style slab then steepens to vertical.
Climbing Magazine
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Bishton finds inspiration for his routes from the local gritstone boulders.
Climbing Magazine
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The gritstone crack is a Yorkshire classic, with steep climbing on wide hands.
Climbing Magazine
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The Roaches are outcrops of gritstone, a coarse-grained sandstone popular with rock climbers.
The Guardian
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The former is capped in gritstone, the baked, compressed remnants of a sandy estuary.
The Guardian
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Features No-Bolt Roulette How headpointing evolved to become a legitimate tactic on Peak District gritstone.
Climbing Magazine
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Like gritstone basically, but on a slightly bigger scale.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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But what happens when the queen of British bouldering is faced with a brutal gritstone crack?
Climbing Magazine
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His achievements in Snowdonia and on the gritstone crags of the Peak District still elicit respect.
The Guardian
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These generally belong to the hard gritstone of the moors through which Newton Dale has been carved.
The Evolution of an English Town
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Tim gave his best gritstone belay as I placed a bolt in a small patch of bare rock.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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I've always climbed on the gritstone in the Peak District, and it's a fairly unique style of climbing.
Climbing Magazine
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The old spa town of Ilkley is a welcoming sight from the gritstone brink of the high moor.
The Guardian
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Limestone dissolves, but gritstone erodes, creating sculpted tors that cap the moors, inflections on long sweeping lines of moorland.
The Guardian
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Kevin Jorgeson makes the key one-handed move on The Groove, one of many gritstone testpieces he repeated this fall.
Climbing Magazine
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The tactile rasp of gritstone is to me like a favourite pair of shoes; limestone is cold, and pinches.
The Guardian
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