Found 2 items, similar to charnel.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: charnel charnel adj : 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” [syn: ghastly, sepulchral] charnel n : a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited [syn: charnel house]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Charnel Charnel \Char"nel\, a. [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L. carnalis. See Carnal.] Containing the bodies of the dead. “Charnel vaults.” --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Charnel \Char"nel\, n. A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery. [1913 Webster] In their proud charnel of Thermopyl[ae]. --Byron. [1913 Webster]