ashlar

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Ashlar Village is on the site of the former Ruchill Hospital, which closed in 1998.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

Plans also call for the use of Ashlar stone cladding for the bridge piers, and abutments and walls near the George Washington Memorial Parkway.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

A. The rough Ashlar, the perfect Ashlar, and the Tressel-Board.

From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by Morgan, William

The perfect Ashlar is said to be "a stone made ready by the hands of the workmen, to be adjusted by the working-tools of the Fellow-Craft."

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

Ashlar, ash′lar, Ashler, ash′lėr, n. hewn or squared stone used in facing a wall, as distinguished from rough, as it comes from the quarry—also in Ash′lar-work, as opposed to Rubble-work.—p.adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various