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A large cave.
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An underground chamber.
verb
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To form a cavern or deep depression in.
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catacombs caverning the hillsides
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To put into a cavern.
Examples of cavern in a Sentence
But we can't live long in this cavern, that's certain.
The fauna of Brixham cavern closely resembles that of Kent's Hole.
A gigantic swan, Cygnus falconeri, is known from the Zebug cavern in Malta.
It was discovered, so the story went, in a cavern in Galilee where it had been hidden for a thousand years.
Jacobs Cavern was peculiarly rich in flint knives and projectile points.
The Tafna (about ioo m.) rises in a large cavern in the mountains south of Tlemcen and flows N.E.
The place of his burial is unknown, and the legend which says he still sits in a cavern in the Kyffhauser mountain in Thuringia waiting until the need of his country shall call him, is now thought to refer, at least in its earlier form, to his grandson, the emperor Frederick II.
In 1893 the bones of a cave-bear (Ursus spelaeus) were taken from a cavern of the Bjelasnica range, in Herzegovina, a discovery without parallel in the Balkan Peninsula.
In winter it hibernates, concealing itself in some hollow or cavern.
Now, he was standing in a vast cavern.
There was a deafening roar that echoed throughout the cavern.
To the east a much deeper and hitherto unknown cavern has been revealed, which Kavvadias identifies with the grotto of Pan.
Besides the great entrance hall of the cavern, which served as the upper shrine, were descending vaults forming a lower sanctuary going down deep into the bowels of the earth.
On the west side of the Bard is the Orkney Man's Cave - a great cavern with fine stalactites and a remarkable echo.
About a mile from the town is the entrance to the famous stalactite cavern of Adelsberg, the largest and most magnificent in Europe.
The summit of Slieve Gullion is crowned by a large cairn, which forms the roof of a singular cavern of artificial construction, probably an early burial-place.
He escaped this doom and dwelt for some years in a cavern.
In the limestone regions caverns and natural bridges occur, among which Luray Cavern and the Natural Bridge are well known.
In the neighbourhood is the celebrated Aggtelek or Baradla cavern, one of the largest and most remarkable stalactite grottos in Europe.
After two or three hundred meters we rounded the southern tip and reached the magical cavern.
A few feet below this level they discovered a wide ice cavern which fell away below for another 50 or 60ft.
The cavern did not come to an end, as they had expected it would, but slanted upward through the great glass mountain, running in a direction that promised to lead them to the side opposite the Mangaboo country.
The hero seized it by the horns and was borne headlong in the flight of the animal, which he finally subdued and dragged into a cavern.
In every succeeding generation this would be the case, and even those with weak but still seeing eyes would in the course of time escape, until only a pure race of eyeless or blind animals would be left in the cavern or deep sea.
Polished rocks outside the cavern and pictographs in the vicinity indicate the work of a prehistoric race earlier than the Osage Indians, who were the historic owners previous to the advent of the white man.
The stalactitic display exceeds that of any other cavern known.
When the cave was first entered, the floor was covered with thousands of tracks of raccoons, wolves and bears-most of them probably made long ago, as impressions made in the tenacious clay that composes most of the cavern floor would remain unchanged for centuries.
Two entrances give access to the grotto, an old one extremely narrow, and a new one, made in 1890, through which the exploration of the cavern can be made in about 8 hours, half the time it took before.
The grease is melted over fires kindled at the cavern's mouth, run into earthen pots, and preserved for use in cooking as well as for the lighting of lamps.
Jacob's Cavern (q.v.), near Pineville, McDonald county, disclosed on exploration skeletons of men and animals, rude implements, &c. Crystal Cave, near Joplin, Jasper county, has its entire surface lined with calcite crystals and scalenohedron formations, from I ft.
In the town is a large subterranean cavern, the Houmbata, which served as a refuge for its inhabitants during frequent bombardments.
The most remarkable animal remains found in Kent's Cavern are those of the Sabretoothed tiger, Machairodus latidens of Sir Richard Owen.
The cavern locally known as Hobgoblin Hall is described in Marmion, and is associated with all kinds of manifestations of the black art.
West of the acropolis were the palace of Xerxes and the Agora, in or near which is the cavern whence the Marsyas, one of the sources of the Maeander, issues.
A legend, afterwards transferred to Frederick Barbarossa, told how he sat in a cavern in the Kyffhausser before a stone table through which his beard had grown, waiting for the time for him to awake and restore to the Empire the golden age of peace.
I discovered the second cavern of Bones at Hutton hill.
So great were their numbers that they quickly filled the immense underground cavern and forced the busy workmen to abandon their tasks.
The famous limestone cavern, which is an Irish national monument, was the scene of a massacre by the Vikings in 928 AD.
A square cavern reached up until the ceiling was lost in swirling fog.
This large cavern was excavated at a particularly rich part of the copper lode.
Into the gloomy mouth of the cavern entrance he stepped without hesitation, and after him proudly pranced the officers and Queen Ann.
We get a sneak preview of part of the DCT display in a side cavern.
Oh, then by day Where wilt one find a cavern dark enough to mask thy monstrous visage?
Its position is most extraordinary, for it occupies a cavern in the middle of the face of a perpendicular cliff 1000 ft.
The cavern is divided into four grottoes, with two lateral ramifications which reach to the distance of about a mile and a half from the entrance.
These subterranean wonders were known as far back as 1213, but the cavern remained undiscovered in modern times until 1816, and it is only in still more recent times that its vast extent has been fully ascertained and explored.
The only remarkable feature in the island is a stalactite cavern on the south coast, which is reached by a narrow passage broken by two steep and dangerous descents which are accomplished by the aid of rope-ladders.
Sixteen of these alabaster scarfs hang side by side in Hovey's Balcony, three white and fine as crape shawls, thirteen striated like agate with every shade of brown, Luray Cavern.
I saw a tallow candle on a hollow in the walls, its flame barely lighting the cavern.
Upstairs the Visitors Room, with it's Black Watch tartan carpet, is a vast cavern for stylish lounging.