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The central building block at the top of an arch or vault
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headstone
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A headstone is a grave marker. Headstone may also refer to: Headstone, London , an area of London, England Headstones (band) , a Canadian rock band Headstones (album) , an album by Lake of Tears Bradley Headstone, a character in the novel Our Mutual Friend ...
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n. A gravestone, a grave marker: a monument traditionally made of stone placed at the head of a grave.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Contemporary locomotives are carved on their headstones, which also bear nauseating rhyming epitaphs of the kind so beloved by the Victorians. ▪ Grave sites are swept, flowers placed, food offered, meals arranged at the headstones. ...
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n. the central building block at the top of an arch or vault [syn: keystone , key ] a stone that is used to mark a grave [syn: gravestone , tombstone ]
Usage examples of headstone.
He had been baptized in the church where his father was a deacon, and he had every expectation that when his time came he would go to his final rest in the same ground where his father and mother lay, indeed where leaning headstones marked the graves of the Adams line going back four generations.
I can find out who Martin Albers was and why Max Abs was willing to pay for his headstone I might be on my way to establishing why Abs thought it necessary to kill Pichler before he spoke to me.
The Esculapian Club of Edinburgh have, since the death of Burns, added some iron-work, with an inscription in honour of the Ayrshire poet to the original headstone.
Boschian nightmare, glided smoothly from a headstone into the shadows and was gone.
Chinese script, and a single headstone written in the rarely-found Tocharian language, an Indo-European tongue known to have once been spoken in what is now Western China.
He halted next to her, his gaze riveted on the headstones in front of them.
There were a scattering of headstones, trees here and there, and up ahead, a little huddle of figures she thought were the statues from her dream.
Alleyn gave particular attention to the headstones of Old Jimmy Wagstaff, Ruth Wall, and Simon Castle.
Her words trailed off as she gazed into the distance and took in the headstones, sprinkled randomly around a grove of cottonwoods in the otherwise open expanse of green foothill a few miles away.
Instead she plunged awkwardly across the sodden earth, stumbling over grave markers and dodging headstones, her face twisted in horror.
These brief, stammering illuminations brought out with ghastly distinctness the monuments and headstones of the cemetery and seemed to set them dancing.
A blackbird which has been observing him from one of the newer headstones is frightened by the sudden movement and rises, calling shrilly.
They still possessed that anachronistic quality, though this time-with soot-discolored snow on some rooftops, with dirty icicles hanging from eaves, with icterous frost marbelizing many window-they also seemed, somehow, like rank after serried rank of headstones in a graveyard for giants.
Two graves along from Susan Blanchard, he stopped abruptly and turned to face that headstone.
First it skirts a stream, a tributary to the Itchen, and goes between meadows till the old church is reached, now only a chancel in the midst of old headstones, and still bordered with trees on the bank between it and the stream.