0 a stone that shows where a dead person is buried, usually with the name and the years of birth and death of that person written on it
1 a tombstone
Generally, the wooden crosses were of a temporary nature, which would be replaced the following season by gravestones.
As he says, 'many a heather-covered hillside is a gravestone to a once awe-inspiring volcano'.
The tomb, in the shape of a triple-necked gourd, has signs of fresh paint on its gravestone.
We wanted to buy him a gravestone for his birthday, but we couldn't afford it.
Granites in gravestones, xenoliths in kerbstones, ballast walls and gastropod mileposts, unconformities in brickwork and bedding in 'pulhamite'; the examples are diverse and diverting.
Louie's work covers a wider time-span and makes use of a range of ethnographic methods involving press reports, official documents, and gravestones.
A gravestone is "a sign whose silent presence marks an absence" (p. 1), thus incorporating the idea of the absent as an inherent component of mobility.
Three of the chapters, on local xenophobia, rural marriage patterns, and gravestones and local attachment, will be familiar to readers, having had previous lives as journal articles.
