English language
Toggle Transcript
charnel::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | charnel house |
| Type of | burial vault, vault |
charnel::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ghastly, sepulchral |
a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones.
Examples of charnel
charnel
The charnel house in Manhattan, and the doe-eyed ascetic in the snowy white robes.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Archaeological excavations suggest that the charnel houses were on the mounds.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The Duchess is here sensationally strangled and left suspended in a charnel-house.
From the guardian.co.uk
The charnel house was burned, then a fire was built of top of it for a feast.
From the en.wikipedia.org
For weeks after the catastrophe these beaches and villages had been charnel grounds.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Turner writes about a charnel wilderness where only the vultures are safe.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
It happens to be the night the signal turns her apartment building into a charnel house.
From the newsobserver.com
In it he parcels out human history and legend in a succession of charnel-house episodes.
From the time.com
Gen, on his way to school on Aug. 6, 1945, must become a man amid the city's charnel rubble.
From the time.com
- Charnel house: a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
- Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
- A chapel attached to a mortuary; A repository for dead bodies; Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral
- A place for storing bones or corpses.
- The hinged staple or bolt that secured the fourteenth century helm or great basinet to the breast and backplate.
- Hasp used around mid-15th century to secure the great helm to the back and breastplate for jousting. It took the form of a hinged flap with rectangular holes corresponding with a series of pieced rectangular lugs, and replaced the leather straps and buckles found on earlier jousting helmets.
