mason

Dr Lindsay said a stone mason who visited the dig suggested the slabs' smooth surfaces were the result of people walking on them over many years.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Every spring, mason Mohammad Ghulam Sarwar boards a train to Indian Kashmir, seeking higher wages despite the risk of being targeted by militants in the disputed Himalayan region.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Hockey is like that of a medieval mason who helped lay a forgotten stone in a cathedral’s foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

It’s a high-tech twist on the classic mason jar, using a silicone lid with a degassing valve and an AirGone Argon Gas Canister to flush out oxygen.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

He had a jawline a mason would have been proud of and straight, white teeth.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

All these tasks required master craftsmen, masons, architects and artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The tiles must be removed by trained masons, and Save the Tiles now has four crews ready every day, made up of volunteers and workers whose employers are covering their wages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

The first firefighters were recruited from tradesmen including slaters, carpenters and masons, aged 17 to 25, because they knew how buildings were constructed.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024

The week-long recruitment drive began on Tuesday, with a 15-member Israeli team overseeing the process and expecting to fill over 5,000 positions for masons, carpenters and other construction workers in Israel.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

There were tradesmen, traders, tinkers, masons, and carpenters, hauling goods of one kind or another.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

"It stood there," he indicated a fallen shed beyond a masoned channel, choked with the broken stones of its walls and tangled shrubbery.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

The material was a grayish stone, rudely cut and masoned into walls of surprising thickness and strength; along two of which walls—the side ones—were distributed as many rows of arched and stately windows.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

So the King’s daughter sat in her vaulted chamber in the masoned house, and she thought upon the thought.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson

The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo; The rankit aiks it overthrew, Had braved a’ weathers; The strang sea-gleds it took an’ blew Awa’ like feethers.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

The flower beds, circled with masoned rims and built up like wired bouquets, held only twisted and broken stems.

From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer

She was doing mason's work; and, once on that tack, guided by the unconscious impulse, she has to keep masoning, even though her labour be useless, superfluous and opposed to her interests.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos