Crossword-Solution: SARSEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sarsen | n. | One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SARSEN | anagram | ANSERS, ARNESS, ASNERS, NARSES, NASSER, SNARES |
We have 7 clues for the answer “SARSEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Druid stone | 1 answer |
| Druid stone of England | 1 answer |
| Early inhabitant of Southwest England. | 1 answer |
| English Druid stone | 1 answer |
| Large boulder | 1 answer |
| large sandstone boulder, the type of which was used to build Stonehenge | 1 answer |
| Sandstone | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with SARSEN (5)
Round about me bulged the barrows As before, in antique silence—immemorial funeral piles— Where the sleek herds trampled daily the remains of flint-tipt arrows Mid the thyme and chamomiles; And the Sarsen stone there, dateless, On whose breast we had sat and told the zephyrs many a tender vow, Held the heat of yester sun, as sank thereon one fated mateless From those far fond hours till now.
Monteith, for his part, sat down a little way off with folded arms on another sarsen-stone, fronting her.
The sheep-dog on that unseen shadow's edge Moved, halted, barked, while the tall shepherd stood Unmoving, leaned upon a sarsen stone, Looking at the rain that curtained the bare hills And drew the smoking curtain near and near!-- Tawny, bush-faced, with cloak and staff, and flask And bright brass-ribb'd umbrella, standing stone Against the veinless, senseless sarsen stone.
That it is earlier than others is clear from the occurrence in some of them of chips from the sarsen stones.
Its centre, in fact, was occupied by a sepulchral chamber built of big Sarsen stones from the surrounding hillsides; and in the midst of the house of death thus rudely constructed lay the mouldering skeleton of its original possessor--an old prehistoric Mongoloid chieftain.
Quotes with SARSEN (1)
I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some linte…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1942–2004).