Trilithons is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRILITHONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• TRILITHON, (Greek) a stone monument of two upright and one transverse slab, also TRILITH
• a megalithic structure consisting of two upright stones and a third across the top as a lintel.

Words related to TRILITHONS

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How to use TRILITHONS in a sentence

• These in turn surround a horseshoe formation consisting of the remains of five great trilithons.
• The outer circle of trilithons, 100 feet in diameter, is composed of monoliths of sandstone originally four feet apart and thirty in number.
• There is more than one explanation of the probable method of the construction of the trilithons.
• These Trilithons rise gradually in height towards the south-west.
• To-day only two of the Inner Trilithons are standing.
• It has even been suggested that the small uprights once carried imposts, or lintel stones similar to the trilithons, on the evidence of this one stone.
• The monument proper, consisting of a circle of Sarsen Trilithons, enclosing a circle of upright foreign stones.
• Within these, five detached Sarsen Trilithons, of graduated height.
• THE PROCESS OF ERECTION Contrary to another cherished belief, the Sarsen Trilithons were erected first, followed by the foreign stones.
• RAISING THE FOREIGN STONES The five Sarsen Trilithons already mentioned were raised into position from the inside of the circle.
• It is a question, as yet, if the outer Sarsen Trilithons were erected from the outside or the inside of the circle.
• The Maltese cells are not like dolmens at all, they are either trilithons or tables resting on a pillar.

Similar words containing LITHON without suffix s and without prefix tri

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