Definition of masonry

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

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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..
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..
Underpin :: Underpin (v. t.) To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest..
Coffer :: Coffer (v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering..
Culvert :: Culvert (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge..
Masonry :: Masonry (n.) That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar..
Vault :: Vault (n.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy..
Blocage :: Blocage (n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry..
Pier :: Pier (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
Masonry :: Masonry (n.) The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; freemasonry..
Gather :: Gather (n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7..
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..
Slatt :: Slatt (n.) A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
Garreting :: Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
Antimasonry :: Antimasonry (n.) Opposition to Freemasonry.
Antimason :: Antimason (n.) One opposed to Freemasonry.
Counterfort :: Counterfort (n.) A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
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..
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..
Buttress :: Buttress (n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry..
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