mason
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈmeɪsən/
- Using stones found at the site, he's hired a mason to partially reconstruct what he thinks the complex may have looked like.
- skilled masons
- stone masons
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Watch on YouTubeIt's part of our Meet the Contractors series where you will have an opportunity to listen to Rory Smith, the stone Mason for DBR.
- It's part of our Meet the Contractors series where you will have an opportunity to listen to Rory Smith, the stone Mason for DBR.
- And I was I was working with a Mason and I was in his pickup truck and, and he was dropping me back at the hotel.
- I mean, it'll be like, well, I'm going to quit my job, pays all my bills and, you know, go be a Mason.
- I think we mentioned a couple vlogs ago that we were getting a niche and a threshold and the things made from Valley Master Mason for the basement bathroom.
Examples
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Each contractor employed a small team of Masons who built the brick facings.
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Stacy can call a Mason and have him come in here and fix the sidewalk.
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Must be a stone mason.
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After my grandfather could no longer find work as a stone mason, he took government work building the bridge.
Fiction book (2001) -
The local economy also paid local masons for their work.
Academic text (2004) -
Itinerant masons traveled with their pattern books to various construction sites of churches.
Academic text (2000) -
The mason who carved the Ballinderry Sheela was drawing upon the art of the Celtic past.
Academic text (2000) -
In addition to agriculture, they indicated that their husbands worked as masons, in commerce, in the production of indigenous clothing, or as market vendors.
Academic text (2017) -
Four men worked as carpenters, four as blacksmiths, two as masons, two as harness-makers, and one man manufactured wagons.
Academic text (2001) -
The mason skillfully laid the bricks to create a sturdy wall.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person or company that organizes and supervises building work
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1.7
A person who builds and fixes buildings, roads and other large structures at work sites
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2.5
A person who builds walls and houses using bricks
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6.7
A worker who cuts and shapes stone for building and repair
Antonyms
Compounds
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7.7
A border in the United States between Maryland and Pennsylvania that shows the usual divide between northern and southern states
Border between Maryland and Pennsylvania that marks an old divide between North and South
How Physical
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mason comes from Old French maçon, which meant a 'builder' who works with stone or brick. That's why a mason today is someone who builds or repairs walls, fireplaces, and other stonework.