Altar

1. n. In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table.
2. n. A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.