altarstone

English

Noun

altarstone (plural altarstones)

1. Alternative form of altar stone
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     From the high barbicans of the tower two shafts of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone.

   • 1938, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review:

     The indulgence is attached to the structure itself and not to the altarstone.

   • 1994, Elizabeth A. Graham, The Highlands of the Lowlands:

     The altarstone is situated just south of the stela; the area around it had been disturbed in an apparent looting attempt.