English Explanatory Dictionary

ravenstone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A place of execution; gallows
  2. A gravestone
name
  1. A village and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8450).
  2. A village in Ravenstone with Snibston parish, North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4013).

Word forms

ravenstone ravenstones raven-stone raven stone

Etymology

From a calque of German Rabenstein, equivalent to raven + stone.

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