Sarsen

[sɑ:sәn]

Definition

(n.) One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.

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Definition

n. a local name for the old inhabitants who worked the tin-mines in Cornwall and Devonshire—(the piles of old mining refuse are called attal-Sarsen and Jews' leavings).—Also Sars′den-stone Sar′acen's-stone a name given to the Greywethers of Cornwall.

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