mason

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

Pappu Verma, a mason, now works from 7am until noon, then again from 4pm until 7pm.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

We see how the form of a finial was generated by the progressive subdivision of a square, precisely the same process by which the mason would incise and cut his stone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 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

With a sinking feeling, I remembered what an expert shot he was, how he’d broken the rows of mason jars one by one.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Kajal's brothers worked as masons in Moradabad town.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

The group plans to start paying the masons from a GoFundMe that has now raised more than $100,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

Bamouyi Trao Traoré, one of Djenné’s lead masons, says they work as a team from the very start.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

Living near them were other enslaved people with special skills, such as masons and carpenters like Sambo Andersen.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

So, in the end, I masoned up my lockers and pantries; and save the two used for mittens, the white jacket ever after was pocketless.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

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

The stream poured solid and green through the narrow, masoned course of the forebay, sweeping in a lucent arc over the lip of the fall.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

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

It was discovered about forty years ago, and it may be seen in the vestry within the Norman chapter-house, where it is masoned into the wall over the chimney-piece.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle

No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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

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

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos