dressed masonry

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• dressed masonry — noun : masonry faced and smoothed …   Useful english dictionary

• Masonry — This article refers to the building structure component; for the fraternal organization, see Freemasonry. A mason laying mortar on top of a finished course of blocks, prior to placing the next course. Masonry is the building of structures from… …   Wikipedia

• Cyclopean masonry — is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with huge limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and no use of mortar. The boulders typically are unworked, but sometimes are worked …   Wikipedia

• rubble masonry — also called  rubblework        the use of undressed, rough stone, generally in the construction of walls (wall). Dry stone random rubble walls, for which rough stones are piled up without mortar, are the most basic form. An intermediate method is …   Universalium

• Drafted masonry — Drafted masonry, in architecture, is the term given to large stones, on the face of which has been dressed round the edge a draft or sunken surface, leaving the center portion as it came from the quarry. The dressing is worked with an adze of… …   Wikipedia

• Polygonal masonry — is a technique of stone construction of the ancient Mediterranean world. True polygonal masonry may be defined as a technique wherein the visible surfaces of the stones are dressed with straight sides or joints, giving the block the appearance of …   Wikipedia

• ashlar masonry — noun : masonry made of sawed, dressed, tooled, or quarry faced stone with proper bond …   Useful english dictionary

• polygonal masonry — noun : masonry constructed of stones dressed with smooth faces that do not meet at right angles …   Useful english dictionary

• Rubble masonry — or cut stone.Coursed rubble is wall construction with the stones roughly dressed and set in deep, approximate courses.Speckled rubble is a rubble wall with small pieces of stone sometimes called snecks filling the irregular spaces between the… …   Wikipedia

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