Dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages.
1Compare them with the following from the lake dwellings of Switzerland:
2Hand-made pottery and rude tissues of flax are found in neolithic lake dwellings in Switzerland.
3When the use of bronze was discovered the people still lived on in their lake dwellings.
4These are none other than lake dwellings, similar to those first discovered in Switzerland about fifty years ago.
5Switzerland is famous for its numerous clusters, or villages, of ancient lake dwellings, which were of considerable size.
6The piles of the Swiss Lake dwellings, which are in a state of good preservation, are of prehistoric age.
7It scraped the mud out of the interior of its lake dwellings, until it reached more or less dry earth.
8Such a habitation, like the Swiss lake dwellings, afforded remarkable advantages of position in case of attack by a hostile tribe.
9As regards the Lake dwellings, I have been able to submit to comparative examination nearly every single skull that has been found.
Translations for lake dwelling