Char"nel (?), a. [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L. carnalis. See Carnal.]
Containing the bodies of the dead.
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Charnel vaults."
Milton.
Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.
© Webster 1913.
Char"nel, n.
A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
In their proud charnel of Thermopylae.
Byron.
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