menhir
an upright monumental stone standing either alone or with others, as in an alignment, found chiefly in Cornwall and Brittany.
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How to use menhir in a sentence
Then it would send its rays across the pool full on the face of the menhir, as it seemed.
A Prince of Cornwall | Charles W. WhistlerI think that the fall of the menhir scared them, for they were yet tied where Evan left them, just before that.
A Prince of Cornwall | Charles W. WhistlerThe largest known is the menhir of Locmariaquer in Morbihan, now fallen and broken.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerThus it is believed in many localities that a "menhir" in the neighbourhood turns on its axis at midnight.
Grey dolmen and grey menhir already stand there, by the last shores, memorials of his destiny.
The Divine Adventure etc. (Works vol. 4) | Fiona Macleod
British Dictionary definitions for menhir
/ (ˈmɛnhɪə) /
a single standing stone, often carved, dating from the middle Bronze Age in the British Isles and from the late Neolithic Age in W Europe
Origin of menhir
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