Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who forms stones into square shapes; a stone-cutter.
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Examples
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No; they should be taught her, line by line and word by word (since she could not read), and taught her by the hag Natalia, that not a subtle pang be spared the "strutting stone-squarer."
Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne
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We are all agreed, all in a tale, observe, when Jules shall burst out on us in a fury by and by: I am spokesman -- the verses 35 that are to undeceive Jules bear my name of Lutwyche -- but each professes himself alike insulted by this strutting stone-squarer, who came alone from Paris to Munich, and thence with a crowd of us to Venice and Possagno here, but proceeds in a day or two alone again -- oh, alone 40 indubitably!
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850
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