Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of rudely cut monolith found in Porto Rico. They vary in size and shape from simple slabs decorated with incised pictographs on one or both surfaces to rude idols with a head sculptured on one end.
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Examples
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He forced the ring till it reached the thick of the pillar-stone.
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Their two pillar-stones are there, even the pillar-stone of Finnabair and the pillar-stone of the fool.
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Sualtaim's horses cropped the grass north of the pillar-stone close to the ground; Cuchulain's cropped the grass south of the pillar-stone even to the ground and the bare stones.
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"Over yonder by the trench, [11] with his back to the pillar-stone, [11]" answered the gilla.
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Ailill's dress and his golden shawl [5] and his regal diadem [5] on the pillar-stone in Crich Ross, that it might be thereon that Cethern son of
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And [6] after his night's vigil, [6] with an angry cast he threw his cloak around him, so that it passed over the pillar-stone [7] near by, the size of himself, [7] and snapped the pillar-stone off from the ground between himself and his cloak.
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Then Conchobar had a pillar-stone set up at his head and another at his feet, and between them a bed apart was made for him.
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Gorm the Old, who is said to have christianized all Denmark and Norway, followed the pagan custom of erecting a chambered tumulus over the remains of his father, on the summit of which was placed a rude pillar-stone, bearing on one side the memorial inscription in runes, and on the other a representation of the Saviour of mankind distinguished by the crossed nimbus surrounding the head.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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"Why, over yonder [1] near the pillar-stone before thee," [1] answered Cormac Conlongas son of Conchobar.
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Touching the men of Erin, the account follows here: They came up to the pillar-stone at Ard Cuillenn, [3] which is called Crossa Coil to-day, [3] and they began looking out upon the province that was unknown to them, the province of Ulster.
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