Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dresses stones for building, or builds with them; a builder in stone.
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Examples
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And there's Andy, a stone-mason, has ideas on everything,
Chapter 36 2010
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It might be the assembling of a particularly jolly crowd; a touch of anger against my architect or against a thieving stone-mason working on my barn; the death of my favourite horse in a barbed wire fence; or news of good fortune in the morning mail from my dealings with editors and publishers.
Chapter 31 2010
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At the site of the 62-unit development where the Kalabrinos hope to move, rows of empty, overgrown plots are bounded by stone-mason walls and telephone-switchboard boxes.
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As lord of the Valle Grande manor, he has told visiting journalists his rags-to-riches story: how as a child he walked 10 kilometres to school, how he was apprenticed as a stone-mason but threw it up to emigrate, finding work in Germany and elsewhere, before returning to his roots laden with riches to build his fine hotel.
RNB QuickLinks: Heidi Klum, a noisy church burglar, and ‘Christian’ gossip 2008
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He was known for the best stone-mason in the four counties, and as the man who could, on occasion, drink the most alcohol in a given time in the same localities.
Doctor Thorne 2004
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His approaching step was heard, and thus the ci-devant Barchester stone-mason saluted his coming friend.
Doctor Thorne 2004
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What a blessed thing it would be if a bishop could go away from his home to his work every day like a clerk in a public office — as a stone-mason does!
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Enough has been said in this narrative to explain to the reader that Roger Scatcherd, who was whilom a drunken stone-mason in
Doctor Thorne 2004
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Handy, was put into the hospital by himself; he had been a stone-mason in Barchester, and had broken his thigh by a fall from
The Warden 2004
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But men did not know that his inner heart was swelling with triumph, and that his bosom could hardly contain his pride as he reflected that the poor Barchester stone-mason was now the representative of his native city.
Doctor Thorne 2004
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