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Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like..

Boss :: Boss (n.) A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder..

Jump :: Jump (n.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

Bone :: Bone (v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying..

Pier :: Pier (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.

Slatt :: Slatt (n.) A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.

Filling :: Filling (n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc..

Underpinning :: Underpinning (n.) The act of one who underpins; the act of supporting by stones, masonry, or the like..

Ashler :: Ashler (n.) Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone..

Freemasonry :: Freemasonry (n.) The institutions or the practices of freemasons.

Rubble :: Rubble (n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls..

Coping :: Coping (n.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping..

Antimason :: Antimason (n.) One opposed to Freemasonry.

Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used..

Revet :: Revet (v. t.) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material..

Gather :: Gather (n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7..

Emplecton :: Emplecton (n.) A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders..

Half-timbered :: Half-timbered (a.) Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings..

Rubblework :: Rubblework (n.) Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.

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..

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