Masonry

mason | American Dictionary

mason
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmeɪ·sən/
a person who is trained to work with bricks and stones used in buildings

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Skilled masons could sometimes command these top rates, although few are mentioned in the accounts.
The master mason controlled 'the measure' and every dimension was a multiple of it.
Continuities also exist at the level of individual trades, as carpenters, masons, shoemakers and drapers' assistants were prominent in both periods.
The role of the masons in the ' defanatisation ' campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s still awaits proper treatment.
Some of them may have worked on the castles as masons or carpenters.
The notions of ' freedom, equality and fraternity ' among most masons did not have the narrow political connotations and definitions used by radical leaders.
That had worked well enough where it was a matter of a prosperous gentleman occasionally hiring a painter or carpenter or mason from the village.
He recently hired masons to install a new, beautiful and expensive, wrought iron door.
If you order a mason to build an oven, he immediately inquires about the progress of the peace, and descants on the preliminaries.
The commune, populated by 2,000 migrant masons and seasonal workers, was the site of bodily contortions and spiritual upheaval.
They work in mixed gangs under a male supervisor who is often an outsider, as is the mason for whom they carry bricks.
In 1826 these included barometer maker, furniture broker, glass dealer, marble mason, goldsmith and fishmonger.
Most commoners were either agricultural labourers or worked in trades, for example as blacksmiths, carpenters and masons, or engaged in cottage textiles, as dressmakers or shoemakers.
They added that one mason had already been employed for about three years and a second one for eighteen months, for the task of extracting fossils.
Unlike the medieval master mason directly engaged with the materiality of building, modernday architects exercise a remote control over building dealing primarily with drawings, models and texts.
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