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charnel
UK [tʃɑːnəl] US [tʃɑːɹnəl]
noun 3adj 1
Collocations
3VERB + CHARNEL
poisoned, struck
CHARNEL + NOUN
device, helmet
PREP.
on
Definitions
noun
1
A chapel attached to a mortuary.
2
A repository for dead bodies.
When Lazarus left his charnel-cave, And home to Mary’s house return’d, Was this demanded—if he yearn’d To hear her weeping by his grave?
adj
1
Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
He murmured to himself with dull despair, Here Faith died, poisoned by this charnel air.
noun
1
Part of a helm, now usually identified as the hinge (near the neck) by which the helm was secured to the breastplate.
The knight did as he was desired, and broke his spear twice on the very charnel of his helmet. It being now Sir William Cecil's turn, each knight charged his spear directly towards the other's head, and galloping on, both lances[…]
1 Are these the charnels, or pinnacles of helmets? See Meyrick, […]
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Synonyms
adjective — gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
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When Lazarus left his charnel-cave, And home to Mary’s house return’d, Was this demanded—if he yearn’d To hear her weeping by his grave?
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He murmured to himself with dull despair, Here Faith died, poisoned by this charnel air.
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The knight did as he was desired, and broke his spear twice on the very charnel of his helmet. It being now Sir William Cecil's turn, each knight charged his spear directly towards the other's head, a
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1 Are these the charnels, or pinnacles of helmets? See Meyrick, […]
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[page 78:] […] knight being struck on the charnel, a device for attaching the helm to the breastplate […] [page 497:] Most of the knights at this passage of arms were wearing sallets with bevors or ar
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