cherty's Usage Examples:

The main lithic finds include microliths, particularly scalene triangles, and irregularly shaped picks made mostly of cherty limestone.

Willie himself is perhaps the closest the Scottish theater has ever come to the kind of secular sainthood McIlvanney confers upon Docherty.

On the escarpment around the Blue Grass Region the soils are for the most part either cherty or stiff with clay and of inferior quality.

In the north the plateau is overlain by red and purple unfossiliferous sandstones, capped near its edge by a cherty limestone also unfossiliferous but possibly of Lower Cretaceous age.