cromlech


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crom·lech

 (krŏm′lĕk′)
n.
1. A portal tomb.
2. A prehistoric monument consisting of a group of megaliths, sometimes arranged in a circle or in concentric circles.
[Welsh : crom, feminine of crwm, arched + llech, stone.]
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cromlech

(ˈkrɒmlɛk)
n
1. (Archaeology) a circle of prehistoric standing stones
2. (Archaeology) (no longer in technical usage) a megalithic chamber tomb or dolmen
[C17: from Welsh, from crom, feminine of crwm bent, arched + llech flat stone]
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crom•lech

(ˈkrɒm lɛk)

n.
(no longer in technical use) a megalithic chamber tomb.
[1595–1605; < Welsh, =crom bent, curved, crooked (feminine of crwm) + lech, comb. form of llech flat stone]
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cromlech

- Is Welsh for "arched stone" and means "any megalithic chamber tomb."
See also related terms for tomb.
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cromlech

A prehistoric circle of standing stones, sometimes encircling a mound.
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Noun1.cromlech - a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstonecromlech - a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone
dolmen, portal tomb
megalith, megalithic structure - memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
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The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
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New-old, and shadowing Sense at war with Soul Rather than that gray King, whose name, a ghost, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak, And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still; or him Of Geoffrey's book, or him of Malleor's."
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Here you may find nests of the strong down partridge and peewit, but take care that the keeper isn't down upon you; and in the middle of it is an old cromlech, a huge flat stone raised on seven or eight others, and led up to by a path, with large single stones set up on each side.
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Who had placed those rocks and stones like cromlechs of prehistoric times?
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