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noun
- a chipped stone of the late Tertiary Period in Europe once thought to have been flaked by humans but now known to be the product of natural, nonhuman agencies.
adjective
- denoting, relating to, or characteristic of the early part of the Stone Age, characterized by the use of crude stone tools
noun
- a stone, usually crudely broken, used as a primitive tool in Eolithic times
1890, from French éolithique (1883), from eo- (see eo-) + French lithique, as in néolithique (see neolithic). Related: eolith (1890).