stonecutter
noun
stone·cut·ter
ˈstōn-ˌkə-tər 
1
: one that cuts, carves, or dresses stone
2
: a machine for dressing stone
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The deadly toll of dust on miners and stonecutters was detailed by European scholars in the 1500s and 1700s.
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Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
Emery Heights Community Center — A master stonecutter who cut and laid the cornerstone of the Washington Monument, Matthew Gault Emery* served as mayor of Washington from 1870-71.
—Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
According to his son, family lore had it that Evans was an Anglicized version of Eban, the Hebrew word for stonecutter.
—New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
Born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Italian immigrant parents, who moved to the predominantly Protestant South as his father sought work as a stonecutter and granite quarry worker.
—Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2021
The son of an immigrant Italian stonecutter, Joseph Bernardin grew up in the South and described himself as twice an outsider because of his heritage and religion.
—Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2021
San Marino has been a political anomaly, its identity built on standing apart, ever since its founding, according to tradition, in 301 by its namesake, St. Marinus, a stonecutter who settled amid the craggy caves of Monte Titano in the Apennines.
—New York Times, 2 Apr. 2021
Set in Germany, this ambitious début novel begins in 1229, when a young serf buys his freedom and becomes an apprentice stonecutter, working on the construction of a cathedral.
—The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
The monument includes a stonecutter with a mallet in hand.
—Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2020
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Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
Emery Heights Community Center — A master stonecutter who cut and laid the cornerstone of the Washington Monument, Matthew Gault Emery* served as mayor of Washington from 1870-71.
—Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
According to his son, family lore had it that Evans was an Anglicized version of Eban, the Hebrew word for stonecutter.
—New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
Born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Italian immigrant parents, who moved to the predominantly Protestant South as his father sought work as a stonecutter and granite quarry worker.
—Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2021
The son of an immigrant Italian stonecutter, Joseph Bernardin grew up in the South and described himself as twice an outsider because of his heritage and religion.
—Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2021
San Marino has been a political anomaly, its identity built on standing apart, ever since its founding, according to tradition, in 301 by its namesake, St. Marinus, a stonecutter who settled amid the craggy caves of Monte Titano in the Apennines.
—New York Times, 2 Apr. 2021
Set in Germany, this ambitious début novel begins in 1229, when a young serf buys his freedom and becomes an apprentice stonecutter, working on the construction of a cathedral.
—The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
The monument includes a stonecutter with a mallet in hand.
—Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2020
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First Known Use
1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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