"altarstone" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: altarstones [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} altarstone (plural altarstones)
  1. Alternative form of altar stone Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: altar stone
    Sense id: en-altarstone-en-noun-LiStvKAP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "From the high barbicans of the tower two shafts of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone.",
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          "ref": "1938, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review",
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