Our local paper is reprinting facsimiles of pages from 1915 and I'm transcribing the account of a funeral for a contact in Australia and this phrase appears:
"The grave was a steined one, lined with evergreens and flowers, in the eastern part of the churchyard"
Any ideas? I've googled without success yet, online OED has not helped, but there are numerous references to steined graves in newspaper archives, for instance it cost 15s to be buried in one at Hastings in 1889.
"The grave was a steined one, lined with evergreens and flowers, in the eastern part of the churchyard"
Any ideas? I've googled without success yet, online OED has not helped, but there are numerous references to steined graves in newspaper archives, for instance it cost 15s to be buried in one at Hastings in 1889.
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