altarstone
English
Noun
altarstone (plural altarstones)
- Alternative form of altar stone
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- From the high barbicans of the tower two shafts of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone.
- 1938, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review:
- The indulgence is attached to the structure itself and not to the altarstone.
- 1994, Elizabeth A. Graham, The Highlands of the Lowlands:
- The altarstone is situated just south of the stela; the area around it had been disturbed in an apparent looting attempt.