Definitions for "Charnel"
The hinged staple or bolt that secured the fourteenth century helm or great basinet to the breast and backplate.
Fourteenth-century staple or bolt used to secure the helm or great basinet to the breastplate and backplate
The hinged bolt that secured a 14th century helm to the breastplate or backplate.
Containing the bodies of the dead.
a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
Keywords:  cemetery, grave, house
A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.