pumice
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Finds included bone pegs for stretching vellum as it dried, and tools such as knives and pumice stones for scraping and smoothing animal hides.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
The pumice samples contained almost no platinum, with levels at or below detection limits.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2026
He died at Stabiae, a few miles south of Pompeii, gazing over a sea rendered unnavigable by pumice and strong opposing winds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
The Paiute-Shoshone Indians later chipped away at the red pumice stone, which exposed the lighter rock minerals underneath, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
He went to the bathroom and scrubbed himself with disinfectants, scraping his hide with pumice stone.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
The upper Piton is unfitted for retaining water, which must percolate through its cinders, pumices, and loose matter into many a reservoir formed by blowing-holes.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Donkeys usually keep their hooves naturally pumiced by foraging for long miles over rocky ground.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
Her pumiced spear at the ready, Sosie crouched behind the bush to watch and wait.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Calyste went up a staircase the steps of which were well pumiced and the landings filled with flowering plants.
From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Wounds in well-shaped feet are less serious than in feet with soles that are flat or convex, or in which the horn is pumiced or otherwise deteriorated in quality.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
Active inflammation is often present and all the wretchedness of a pumiced foot—the despair of owner and veterinary—is experienced.
From Rational Horse-Shoeing by John E. Russell
I decided to ham it up, doing my best Michael Jackson moonwalk, pumicing my bare feet as I dragged them awkwardly across concrete.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2023
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