Definition of mason
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: a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick)
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For 16 years, 20,000 laborers, masons, and artisans have been toiling on the Taj Mahal, commissioned by the emperor to entomb his beloved wife.
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The machine can lay about 3,000 bricks in an eight-hour shift - several times more than a mason working by hand.
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The machine can lay about 3,000 bricks in an eight-hour shift - several times more than a mason working by hand.
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The machine can lay about 3,000 bricks in an eight-hour shift - several times more than a mason working by hand.
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Hawking was later married for 11 years to Elaine mason, one of his former nurses.
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Warren was a mason in the Shriners, a Deacon at Alta Vista Presbyterian Church in North Miami and a Little League Baseball Coach also in North Miami.
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Pugh said the industry has been working to make sure that skilled positions - stone and brick masons, painters, traditional craft workers - are filled.
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There are masons and gardeners at the Trump Taj who may never stop laughing and, after that, Susan Glasser can arrange a séance and have a chat about strategic deception with the late Edith Galt Wilson.
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Origin and Etymology of mason
Middle English, from Anglo-French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English macian to make
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First Known Use: 13th century
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: a skilled worker who builds or works with stone, brick, or concrete
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: a person who builds or works with stone or brick
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