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masoncraft

noun

Etymology

From mason + -craft.

  1. derived from *metn-✻
  2. derived from *mattjō✻ — “cutter”
  3. derived from *mag-✻ — “to knead, mix, make”
  4. derived from *makōn✻ — “to work, build, make”
  5. derived from *makjō✻ — “maker, builder”
  6. derived from maciō — “carpenter, bricklayer”
  7. derived from maçon
  8. derived from machun
  9. inherited from masoun
  10. suffixed as masoncraft — “mason + -craft”

Definitions

  1. The skills of a mason

    The skills of a mason; expertise in building with stone, brick, etc.

    • The decay of masoncraft in the country generally is one of the things the lover of architecture most mourns, and this decay makes the preservation of the older work a matter of real national concern.
    • Thus the second category of practica, which included carpentry and masoncraft, mirrored the theoretical science of mathematics.
    • Monastic chronicles, building contracts and accounts and other contemporary documents have revealed a good deal of information about the practice of masoncraft in the Middle Ages.

  2. Masonry

    Masonry; the work or output of a mason.

    • Masoncraft, Freeman well shows, may, combined with writings, be a powerful factor in historic evidence; for the mind of a nation, at successive eras of its existence, is inscribed in its architecture.
    • For lightness and delicacy the masoncraft of Gloucester had no rivals at the time.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA