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charnel house collapse: a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

dolmen collapse: a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone

shrine collapse: a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person

reliquary collapse: a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)

crypt collapse: a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

barrow collapse: a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels; the quantity that a barrow will hold

carton collapse: a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top; the quantity contained in a carton

pyramid collapse: a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt; (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases; a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex; increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base; arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid; use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal; enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts

vault collapse: the act of jumping over an obstacle; an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof; a burial chamber (usually underground); a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables; bound vigorously; jump across or leap over (an obstacle)

pit collapse: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"; a trap in the form of a concealed hole; a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"; a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression); remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"; set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"

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