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Word: Cromlech
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stonepicnicking_okapicromlech [krom-lek]
noun
definition
1. a circle of monoliths usually enclosing a dolmen [an ancient group of stones consisting of one large flat stone supported by several vertical ones] or mound
examples
1. And again beyond the cromlech was a hut, shaped like a beehive of straw, built of many stones most wonderfully, both walls and roof. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex, 1884
2. In autumn a memorial garden will be created around the stone cromlech to complete what is a lasting reminder of the sacrifice made by the people of Wales who fought in the First World War. BBC, Aug 17, 2014
3. Not only / the storm's / breakwater, but the sudden / frontier to our concurrences, appearances, / and as the full of the offer of space / as the view through a cromlech is. from the poem "The Door" by Charles Tomlinson
origin
Welsh, literally, 'arched stone'
noun
definition
1. a circle of monoliths usually enclosing a dolmen [an ancient group of stones consisting of one large flat stone supported by several vertical ones] or mound
examples
1. And again beyond the cromlech was a hut, shaped like a beehive of straw, built of many stones most wonderfully, both walls and roof. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex, 1884
2. In autumn a memorial garden will be created around the stone cromlech to complete what is a lasting reminder of the sacrifice made by the people of Wales who fought in the First World War. BBC, Aug 17, 2014
3. Not only / the storm's / breakwater, but the sudden / frontier to our concurrences, appearances, / and as the full of the offer of space / as the view through a cromlech is. from the poem "The Door" by Charles Tomlinson
origin
Welsh, literally, 'arched stone'
