Now only Sc. and north. dial. [F. THROUGH sb.1 (q.v. for Forms) + STONE sb.] A horizontal grave-stone or slab over a tomb: = THROUGH sb.1 3.
13[?]. Cursor M., 16762 + 94 (Cott.). Throgh stones in sunder brast, And ded bodyes gon rise.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 493/2. Thurwhe stone, of a grave [v.rr. thwrwe ston, throwe or thorw ston, throwe or throwstone], sarcofagus.
1509. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), V. 5. I will have a thorgh ston of marbill to be laid uppon my grave.
1540. N. C. Wills (Surtees, 1908), 167. Yt myne execoutoures shall bye a threwgh stone and laye upon my mother in Seynt Andrewes Church.
1593. Rites of Durham (Surtees, 1908), 60. An other gentleman was buryed in the said Garth with a faire throwgh stone aboue hym.
1703. Bp. W. Nicolson, Misc. Acc. (1877), 106. A couple of fair Freestone Monuments or Through-Stones.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xxiv. The muckle through-stane that stands on sax legs yonder.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Words, Thruff-stone.
1848. Edinb. Antiq. Mag., Nov., 113. A group of beautiful throoch-stanes, i.e. the large flat stones on pillars.
1894. Crockett, Lilac Sunbonnet, 55. [He] set a big thruch stane ower his first wife.