menhir

• English menhir is borrowed from French, borrowed from the Breton word.Maen "stone" is from Proto-Indo-European *meǵ- "great" (OED).
• Where the grey-blue menhir were old stones heavy with age, the kingstone was older still; the epochs it had endured rested on it as lightly as a spray of vine upon an old fencepost. —  The Flight of the Wren
• Cablin helped him to sit up, propping him against the menhir, his legs splayed before him like a marionette's. —  The Flight of the Wren
• Jo'akim lay propped up against a menhir, heavily bandaged. —  The Flight of the Wren
• Above it, a tall menhir was raised with the names of all those slain inscribed upon it in Sennayeth runes. —  The Flight of the Wren

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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