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

Masonry :: Masonry (n.) The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; freemasonry..

Culvert :: Culvert (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

Foundation :: Foundation (n.) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry..

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

Martello Tower :: Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction..

Counterfort :: Counterfort (n.) A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

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

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

Masonry :: Masonry (n.) The work or performance of a mason; as, good or bad masonry; skillful masonry..

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

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