Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of several large masses of silicified sandstone or conglomerate found on or near the ground surface in England and Brittany and believed to be the erosional remains of a sedimentary bed deposited during the Tertiary Period. These masses were used by Neolithic peoples as monoliths.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Saracen (formerly used in a vague sense for foreigner). - noun The name given in southwestern England to former inhabitants of the region, and especially to former workers of the tin-mines, the ancient piles of attle in Cornwall and Devon being designated as “Jews' pits,” “Jews' leavings,” “attal-Sarsen” or “-Saracen,” “remains of the Sarcens,” etc.
- noun [lowercase] Same as
Saracen's stone (which see, underSaracen ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also
sarsen stone , andDruid stone .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one of various blocks of
sandstone found in various locations in southern England.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You may want to take a look at the interesting sarsen stones in front of the house (the same stones used to build part of Stonehenge).
Enjoy the Ride 2010
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Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead, Parker Pearson said in a statement.
Science Project 2010
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Barbara Bender traces an elemental progression over time in the building of the monuments, from ditch banks of earth to chalk, to wood, and then to stone: both the relatively local sarsen and the bluestone from far away.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Barbara Bender traces an elemental progression over time in the building of the monuments, from ditch banks of earth to chalk, to wood, and then to stone: both the relatively local sarsen and the bluestone from far away.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Leaving the pub, I venture out into this cathedral and notice the bob and swing of hand-held lanterns on the far side of a dark field punctuated with sarsen monoliths.
Archive 2008-06-01 Christopher 2008
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Leaving the pub, I venture out into this cathedral and notice the bob and swing of hand-held lanterns on the far side of a dark field punctuated with sarsen monoliths.
Wiccan Energy Rasing Circle At Avebury Christopher 2008
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Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead, Parker Pearson said in a statement.
May 2008 2008
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The mound eventually got covered by different layers of local material; clay, chalk, topsoil, turf and even some sarsen stones.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead, Parker Pearson said in a statement.
What About Carhenge? 2008
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Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead, Parker Pearson said in a statement.
What About Carhenge? 2008
qms commented on the word sarsen
The theories abound and are far-flung -
Druidical, say some, or else sarsen.
Those strange monoliths
Have spawned many myths.
The favorite of late is they're Martian.
December 30, 2014