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Demolishing wings, smash large masonry
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ashlar
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) A large cuboid stone; masonry making use of such stone blocks. 2 A hurling stone used in warfare.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "square stone for building or paving," from Old French aiseler , from Latin axillaris , from axilla , diminutive of axis "board, plank," which is perhaps not the same axis that means "axle." The stone sense is peculiar to English.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ashlar \Ash"lar\, Ashler \Ash"ler\, n. [OE. ascheler, achiler, OF. aiseler, fr. aiselle, dim. of ais plank, fr. L. axis, assis, plank, axle. See Axle .] 1. (Masonry) Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone. Rough ashlar, a block ...
Usage examples of ashlar.
The tower certainly stood on the site of the present tower, as Roman ashlaring has been discovered on the north-west side of the north-west tower pier, above the vault of the side aisle, and also portions of a shaft with a base, which probably belonged to the Norman clerestory.
His voice took on a grating edge, like ashlars slipping over one another.
Joseph enumerated the beams, joists, ashlars, and the iron-work, and volubly praised the old domain.
Some of the smooth-cut faces of the ashlars bore inscriptions, which no Solarian had ever been able to interpret.
She was seated on a squared block of white limestone, an ashlar from an ancient temple.
In most cases, the gray ashlars bore a veneer of carefully chosen and integrated slabs, marble, agate, chalcedony, jasper, nephrite, materials more exotic than that.
Ashlar, who was this saint who had no feast in the church calendar?
First, take me into the church, into the baptistry, and there baptize me Ashlar in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, as if it had never been done before.
Its steeply peaked roof was, like the walls, built of ashlars reused from earlier buildings.
Its steeply-peaked roof was, like the walls, built of ashlars reused from earlier buildings.
When the walls of the new palace started rising, I knew Cyprianus was due to take on a very large tranche of general masons, plus stone-cutters to shape and face the ashlar blocks, scaffolders, barrow boys and mortar-mixers.