Crossword clues for stonecutter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stonecutter \Stone"cut`ter\, n. One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Somebody who cuts, carves or dresses stone. 2 A machine that is used to cut stone or concrete.
WordNet
n. someone who cuts or carves stone [syn: cutter]
Wikipedia
A stonecutter is a person who carries on the trade of stonecutting or stonemasonry.
Stonecutter or Stonecutters may also refer to:
- Chainsaw (section Cutting stone, concrete and brick)
Usage examples of "stonecutter".
Philadelphia that July 4 of 1788, in which many hundreds of tradesmen marched, grouped by guilds: shipbuilders, rope-makers, instrument-makers, blacksmiths, tin-plate workers, cabinetmakers, printers, bookbinders, coppersmiths, gunsmiths, saddlers, and stonecutters, some fifty different groups carrying banners and the tools of their trade.
There were smiths and weavers and potters, woodwrights, masons, glaziers, tanners, chandlers, shoe and harness makers, lute and lyre makers, fullers, spinners, rug makers, wagonwrights, carvers, founders, tinkers, coopers, toolmakers, brickmakers, glassmakers, stonecutters, dyers, and enamelers.
Stonecutter felt the power of the bundles, and they seemed to pull at him, to entreat him with silent voices.
And so now Stonecutter diought a prayer to Creator, asking whether Creator had put him here at this time to save the bundles from whatever was happening.
So, his sinewy body glistening with the sweat of fear and doubt, Stonecutter began trotting down the dim, gray halls with the leather-covered bundles under his arm, glancing backward and ahead every few steps.
Sacred Bundles to his chest, Stonecutter snuffed out the torch against the ceiling, then eased out to stand in the courtyard, studying the skies, the walls nearby, and the distances.
Stonecutter clung to the Sacred Bundles and led his dazed daughter limping across baileys and gardens so littered with arrows that it was like walking over the dead twigs in a woods.
Stonecutter balanced the bundles on his head and held them there with a free hand until he could climb ashore on the bank and help pull his daughter up.
Stonecutter stopped at a place and set the bundles down, she looked about and felt that, yes, this was where she used to live, in that other life, before she had gone to the castle as a Maid of the Rain Room.
Stonecutter knew little about ships, but he knew these wicker-frame curraghs sometimes came apart and sank when they were overloaded with stone or lime from the quarries.
Most of the People still used bow drills of wood to make fire, though the chiefs and the Bundle Keepers had sometimes used the tools of the ancient stonecutters to strike sparks from flint stones for special ceremonial fires.
He began to follow songs of quarrymen and stonecutters wrought in a tongue modern Sacoridians would not recognize.
He had climbed out a window and made his way down the wall clinging by his fingernails to the tiny chiseled marks the stonecutters had left in the stone.
The tools of the plasterers and stonecutters, and the ease with which they wielded them, fascinated Tobin.
But as striking as any sign of the country's burgeoning energy and productivity was the “Grand Federal Procession” held in Philadelphia that July 4 of 1788, in which many hundreds of tradesmen marched, grouped by guilds: shipbuilders, rope-makers, instrument-makers, blacksmiths, tin-plate workers, cabinetmakers, printers, bookbinders, coppersmiths, gunsmiths, saddlers, and stonecutters, some fifty different groups carrying banners and the tools of their trade.