What is "capstones"

Usage examples of "capstones".

Within stood the taller horseshoe shape, five great double uprights with capstones, and the scores of smaller bluestones.

Great pillars, now weathered into grotesque forms of their original selves, had been arranged by someone into a circular shape perhaps twelve meters across the arc, then sunk deep into the existing rock, and had been joined by capstones at one time.

Not all the pillars still stood, and only two or three capstones, but the original look of the place was clear.

Catwoman drew her legs up onto the capstones, then dared a glance over her shoulder.

When she was satisfied that she had the drop on both Batman and Eddie Lobb, she sat cross-legged on the capstones and popped open a can of tuna fish.

The bodies of the distant monuments are still cloaked in darkness but the first hint of the rising sun lights up their capstones with an astral glimmer .

A stronger, but less obvious, line of chaos runs from ward to ward through the cupridium cables within the white ceramic casings set under the capstones of the wall, cables that link each cube with the next.

The biggest problem is keeping the drains clear so that the rains don't erode the roadway on which the capstones are placed.

He lifted his head a little and looked between two of the capstones and swore softly as he recognised Robson and Tyson.

One of the capstones was missing and the one next to it pulled out of line, the elongated print of wet fingers showing where the assassin had lost a precarious grip.

The pillars of the henge gleam in the sun, the capstones black and dead.

They were over the capstones of the windows,- -to take off the pressure from them, no doubt, for now and then a capstone will crack under the weight of the superincumbent mass.