| 单词 | hogback tombstone |
| 释义 | > as lemmashogback tombstone 4. Archaeology. More fully hogback tombstone. Chiefly in Scotland and northern England: a rectangular grave cover dating from the early medieval period with a curved top and often with rounded sides. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > stone covering grave stone1303 gravestone1387 through-stonea1400 througha1425 burial-stone?a1500 trough1501 ledgerc1510 tombstone?1520 lair-stone1538 humeta1647 plank1660 ledger-stone1851 flatstone1855 grave-cover1875 hogback1889 1889 R. S. Ferguson Carlisle iv. 54 The coped tombstones, commonly called Saxon hogbacks. 1963 F. Burgess Eng. Churchyard Memorials ii. 86 The..Hogback..term was coined to describe a type of memorial with characteristic curved silhouette. 1975 D. M. Wilson Archaeol. Anglo-Saxon Eng. vi. 254 Shingling is demonstrated pictorially in the hog-back tombstone series. 2001 J. Lang Corpus Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpt. VI. iv. 21 The distribution of hogbacks is at its most dense in northern Yorkshire. < as lemmas |
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