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Stone arrangement, like Stonehenge
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dolmen
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dolmen may refer to: Dolmen , a type of megalithic tomb, common in Europe Other uses Dolmen (TV miniseries) , a French TV miniseries The Dolmen , a UK band
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Elisabeth walked the few metres down the path to the round dolmen . ▪ He was the first person I'd met that day who didn't know what a dolmen was. ▪ I must have passed in and out of several counties that morning, looking for that ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a capstone supported by two or more upright stones, most having originally been covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dolmen \dol"men\ (d[o^]l"m[e^]n), n. [Armor. taol, tol, table + mean, maen, men, stone: cf. F. dolmen.] A cromlech. See Cromlech . [Written also tolmen .]
Usage examples of dolmen.
In the middle of this picture stood the Mardian dolmen, unencumbered now, glinting with frost as if, incongruously, it had been tinselled for the occasion.
The Hobby-Horse, who was behind the dolmen, gave a shrill squeak and went off.
Doctor, Carey had ordered the stragglers off the place and had then, and not till then, walked round the dolmen and seen what lay on the ground beyond it.
The swept-up snow, running away into dirty water, was much trampled, the courtyard itself was greasy and the Mardian dolmen a lump of wet rock standing on two other lumps.
Carey, Thompson, Bailey and the policeman was looking at the dolmen, glanced up at his chief.
Get a shot of the whole dolmen, will you, Thompson, and some details of the top surface.
At the end farthest from the dolmen there was a dark viscous patch, about four inches in diameter, overlying a little drift of gravel.
A further patch, larger, lay about a foot from it, nearer the dolmen and still in the hollow.
None of the five sons had, at any stage of their performance, gone behind the dolmen to the spot where their father lay hidden.
Otterly here and all the other observers we have consulted say that, as a matter of fact, you went up to the dolmen at the moment of climax and stood motionless behind it.
Everybody else agrees about where you were at the moment of the climax: behind the dolmen, they tell us, standing stock still.
I think I went fairly close to the dolmen that time because I seem to remember it between them and me.
Their light quivered over the dolmen and dramatized the attentive faces of the onlookers.
Alleyn back, through the archway, past the dolmen and the flaring torches and across the arena.
The Fool was in his place behind the dolmen, the hermaphrodite and the horse stood like crazy acolytes to left and right of the stone.