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

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

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

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..

Podium :: Podium (n.) The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers..

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..

Buttress :: Buttress (n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry..

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

Antimasonry :: Antimasonry (n.) Opposition to Freemasonry.

Blocage :: Blocage (n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry..

Masonry :: Masonry (n.) The art or occupation of a mason.

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..

Mole :: Mole (n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself..

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

Coursed :: Coursed (a.) Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry..

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

Backjoint :: Backjoint (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

Interdome :: Interdome (n.) The open space between the inner and outer shells of a dome or cupola of masonry.

Garreting :: Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.

Moellon :: Moellon (n.) Rubble masonry.

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