mason

noun

ma·son ˈmā-sᵊn

: a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick)

capitalized : freemason

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Brick mason Adam Karn bought the lot in 1856 and built a home for his wife, Barbara, and their four children. —

Robert Higgs, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2022 The Nakane search, in many ways, was no different than a landscape painter seeking the right color, a mason just the right bricks for his patio wall or a writer seeking the right word. —

Bob Hill, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2022 There were two deaths: A mason tumbled into the ocean in 1879, and a painter fell off a ladder onto the rocks in 1911. —

New York Times, 9 Apr. 2022 As for the birth year of the Big Pig, that seems to be 1935, when Mexican mason Anastacio Gaytan reportedly helped bring it to life, according to a 1995 Express-News history column by Paula Allen. —

René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Oct. 2021 Godbee grew up near Seven Mile and Ryan, the son of a father who was a brick mason and a mother who worked for Michigan Bell. —

Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2022 To repair deteriorating mortar, hire a mason to repoint the brick, a process that involves chiseling or grinding out the mortar about ¾ of an inch back from the face of the brick, then replacing that with new mortar. —

Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021 Doebbler House, 713 Main St.: Presently operated as a bed and breakfast, the house was built in 1907 by Richard Doebbler, who was a stone mason and built the original portion of the old Comfort School. —

Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2021 Monterrosa was a cement mason and was learning carpentry — for a gun. —

Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021 See More

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