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"stone" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often rock (4 letters).
Definitions
remove the pits from
Word origin
From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
Used in a sentence
“Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot.”
“The first day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the Sepulchre.”
“A railway station which formerly stood a few miles from Sydney has recently been demolished, stone by stone, and has been re-erected as a church in the Australian Capital Territory of Canberra, about 200 miles away.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues
01“Hard rock piece”5 letters
02“Small rock”5 letters
03“Hard piece of rock”5 letters
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