charnel

Meanings

1. A chapel attached to a mortuary.
2. A repository for dead bodies.

1. Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.

1. Part of a helm, now usually identified as the hinge (near the neck) by which the helm was secured to the breastplate.

Etymology

From Middle English charnel, from Old French charnel, carnel, from Late Latin carnāle (“graveyard”), from Latin carnālis, or possibly an alteration of Anglo-Norman charner, from Medieval Latin carnārium (“charnel”). Displaced Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs.