What does time-eaten mean?

time-eaten

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English

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Dated; Literary; Obsolete

"At length, he paused before a massive building of time-eaten stone, and, turning abruptly to the knight, exclaimed,"
"To heaven with that ungodly gloom! / Time-eaten towers that tremble not!"
"The Time-eaten names of the Consuls in that Monumentum Ancyranum above-mentioned, as riddled out by T.L."
"The low rust skyline of a time-eaten iron town."

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