Burial vault — may refer to: Burial vault (enclosure), protective coffin enclosure Burial vault (tomb), underground tomb This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led yo … Wikipedia
Burial vault (enclosure) — For an underground tomb, see Burial vault (tomb) .A burial vault is a sturdy box designed to protect the coffin inside of it. The body is placed within the coffin, which is then placed inside the vault. Body, coffin, and vault are buried. A… … Wikipedia
tomb´like´ — tomb «toom», noun, verb. –n. 1. a grave, vault, mausoleum, or other place for a dead body, often above ground: »The greedy sea, The mighty tomb of mariners and kings (William Morris). 2. Figurative. death. –v.t. to put in a tomb; shut up in a… … Useful english dictionary
tomb´less — tomb «toom», noun, verb. –n. 1. a grave, vault, mausoleum, or other place for a dead body, often above ground: »The greedy sea, The mighty tomb of mariners and kings (William Morris). 2. Figurative. death. –v.t. to put in a tomb; shut up in a… … Useful english dictionary
Burial — This article is about human burial practices. For other uses, see Burial (disambiguation). Inhume redirects here. for the band, see Inhume (band). Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from an edition with drawings by… … Wikipedia
Tomb — Tombs redirects here. For other uses, see Tombs (disambiguation). A type of tomb: a mausoleum in Le Père Lachaise cemetery. A tomb (from Greek: τύμβος tumbos[1]) is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally a … Wikipedia
burial — Synonyms and related words: baptism, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave, burial at sea, burial chamber, burial customs, burial mound, burying, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, clouding, concealedness, concealment,… … Moby Thesaurus
Vault — To vault means to jump over something.Vault may also refer to: * Vault (architecture),a half crescent usually formed over doorways * Vault (comics), a prison for super villains in the Marvel Comics universe * Vault (Fallout), underground nuclear… … Wikipedia
burial chamber — noun a chamber that is used as a grave • Syn: ↑sepulcher, ↑sepulchre, ↑sepulture • Derivationally related forms: ↑sepulchral (for: ↑sepulchre) • Hypernyms … Useful english dictionary
Burial — Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
