Definition of mason

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Mason (v. t.) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler..

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Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..
Culvert :: Culvert (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge..
Pin :: Pin (n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin..
Boaster :: Boaster (n.) A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
Slatt :: Slatt (n.) A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
Jumper :: Jumper (n.) A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.
Jump :: Jump (n.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
Casemate :: Casemate (n.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops..
Jedding Ax :: "Jedding ax (n.) A stone mason's tool, having a flat face and a pointed part..
Pier :: Pier (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
Charter :: Charter (n.) An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers..
Freemasonry :: Freemasonry (n.) The institutions or the practices of freemasons.
Masonic :: Masonic (a.) Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.
Kevel :: Kevel (n.) A stone mason's hammer.
Counterfort :: Counterfort (n.) A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
Buttress :: Buttress (n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry..
Dam :: Dam (n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water..
Pier :: Pier (n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings..
Underwork :: Underwork (v. t.) To do like work at a less price than; as, one mason may underwork another..
Nogging :: Nogging (v. t.) Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building..
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