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noun Archaeology.
- (no longer in technical use) a megalithic chamber tomb.
noun
- a circle of prehistoric standing stones
- (no longer in technical usage) a megalithic chamber tomb or dolmen
c.1600, from Welsh, from crom, fem. of crwm “crooked, bent, concave” + llech “(flat) stone.” Applied in Wales and Cornwall to what in Brittany is a dolmen; a cromlech there is a circle of standing stones.