Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A stone can be any of the following: A rock, sometimes skipped, or used in curling or as a method of execution. A gemstone, as used in jewelry. A unit of mass or weight equal to fourteen pounds. The hard covering enclosing the seed of a drupe such as a peach. Stone is also the name of several places in England, in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.