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Meanings of dolmen in английском
Type of single-chamber megalithic tomb.
Synonyms
Examples for "quoit"
Examples for "quoit"
1
These were, running, leaping, boxing, wrestling, and throwing the discus or quoit.
2
It would puzzle even your strong arm to toss such a quoit!
3
Democritus, that it is like a quoit externally, and hollow in the middle.
4
His one hand slipped into his pocket and clutched the quoit.
5
Contestants are given some object like a quoit, a block of wood, etc.
1
What the distinction is between anta and nidhan is not obvious.
2
The Doric anta has a special capital, quite unlike the capital of the column.
3
An anta may be described as a pilaster forming the termination of a wall.
4
In Corinthian buildings the anta, where met with, has a capital like that of the column.
5
The floral frieze under the moldings is, however, somewhat more elaborate on the anta than on the adjacent wall.
1
The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
2
They too raised a cromlech, and then a giddy descent followed.
3
The Welsh Memorial in Flanders Campaign is planning to build a cromlech, or flagstone monument.
4
She had walked lines to an abandoned cromlech on a low hill amid fog-draped mountains.
5
The bones and ashes find a temporary resting-place here, but are afterwards removed to a cromlech.
1
Rare prehistoric rock art, believed to be at least 4,000 years old, has been discovered on a portal tomb in north Co Sligo.
2
Specifically, a number of perfectly preserved portal tombs or dolmens are located in this area.
3
They break into four basic classes: court tombs, portal tombs, passage tombs and wedge tombs.
4
It links to the Brennanstown Portal Tomb dating from 2,500-2,000 BC.
1
Ope wide thy portals , Grave!
Usage of dolmen in английском
1
We find the same association of different materials in the Rocher dolmen.
2
I've been meaning to tell you the dolmen and the warehouse were destroyed.
3
The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
4
The squat little fellow studied the base of the dolmen for a time.
5
The two shadowed their employer, skulking from towering dolmen to dolmen.
6
There are light, spindly constructions and ones of dolmen-like mass.
7
After a time he opened his eyes to see that he'd found a dolmen.
8
I did an about-face and stepped into the dolmen myself.
9
Of those survivors is the dolmen in Ballybrack, Co Dublin, which he painted in 1777.
10
M. Cartailhac described at the Prehistoric Congress of Copenhagen the dolmen of Grailhe (Gard).
11
There was a black-and-white man regarding me, a dolmen to his rear, dark form within it.
12
It's important, young man, that we know just how you found this dolmen and in what condition.
13
Skull from the Bougon dolmen (Deux-Sèvres), seen in profile.
14
Kolgrim sat down beside him and bent over him, leaning against the stone of the great dolmen.
15
There is really no reason to derive either the dolmen or the corridor-tomb from dwellings at all.
16
The large dolmen of Coreoro, near Plouharnel.
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