English words for 'A stonecutter.'
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noun
noun
- Dabbing in stoneworking.
- Something picked or pulled out.
- A gathering to pick fruit.
- The act of making a choice; selection.
- (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
- (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
- The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
- The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
- the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
verb
noun
verb
noun
adj
- of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them
- Of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments; concise and stately.
- (of speech or writing, uncommon) Succinct, laconic.
- Of an inscription: engraved on stone.
- Of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
noun
- someone who cuts or carves stone
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who carves the meat
- a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
- a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
- (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- (Maine) An active child.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (MLE) A knife.
- (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
- (wrestling) A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
noun
- The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
- One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
- (rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
- (stationery) A type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge.
- (mining) Synonym of browman.
- A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
- (UK, gambling) A bet that is almost certain to succeed.
- (Australia, colloquial) A watercourse filled from bank to bank.
- (UK, by extension) A very safe option.
- (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
- The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
- a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
- the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game
noun
- (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
- The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
- Alternative spelling of brooch.
- (architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
- A spit for cooking food.
- An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
- The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- a decorative pin worn by women
verb
- (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
- (nautical, intransitive, of a submerged submarine, torpedo, or similar) To break the surface of the water.
- (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
- (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
- (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
- (intransitive)To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
- bring up a topic for discussion
noun
noun
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
- (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.
- (collective) A group of hares.
- A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
- a moving crowd
- a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
verb
noun
- a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
- a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
- waves breaking on the shore
- A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.
- (electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
- Ellipsis of horsebreaker.
- Something that breaks (something else).
- A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
- (colloquial) A breakdancer.
- (primarily plural) Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.
- The building in which such a machine is placed.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
- (primarily plural) Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
- (transitive) To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
- (transitive) To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
- (transitive) To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
- let saliva drivel from the mouth
noun
- A person employed to use this kind of woodworking tool.
- (mechanical engineering) A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
- (woodworking) A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
- a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
adj
noun
- One who dresses or prepares stone.
- (US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
- (UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
- (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
- A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
- (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
- (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
- (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
- A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
- A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
- One who dresses in a particular way.
- furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
- a cabinet with shelves
- a person who dresses in a particular way
- a wardrobe assistant for an actor
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
noun
noun
- Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
- (mining, historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.
- (by extension) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
- (slang, UK, Lancashire) A friend or mate.
- A person who maintains railway lines.
noun
- a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives
- A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.
- (computing) Alternative letter-case form of Whetstone (“benchmark”).
- (figurative) A stimulant.
verb
noun
- A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
- (in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
- (slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
- (Freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
noun
noun
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- A two-wheeled carriage.
- (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- (Canada, British, regional) A woodlouse.
- (zoology) A carpenter bee.
- a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
verb
noun
noun
- Dabbing in stoneworking.
- Something picked or pulled out.
- A gathering to pick fruit.
- The act of making a choice; selection.
- (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
- (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
- The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
- The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
- the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
verb
noun
verb
noun
adj
- of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them
- Of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments; concise and stately.
- (of speech or writing, uncommon) Succinct, laconic.
- Of an inscription: engraved on stone.
- Of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
noun
- someone who cuts or carves stone
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who carves the meat
- a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
- a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
- (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- (Maine) An active child.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (MLE) A knife.
- (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
- (wrestling) A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
noun
- The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
- One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
- (rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
- (stationery) A type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge.
- (mining) Synonym of browman.
- A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
- (UK, gambling) A bet that is almost certain to succeed.
- (Australia, colloquial) A watercourse filled from bank to bank.
- (UK, by extension) A very safe option.
- (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
- The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
- a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
- the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game
noun
- (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
- The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
- Alternative spelling of brooch.
- (architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
- A spit for cooking food.
- An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
- The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- a decorative pin worn by women
verb
- (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
- (nautical, intransitive, of a submerged submarine, torpedo, or similar) To break the surface of the water.
- (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
- (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
- (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
- (intransitive)To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
- bring up a topic for discussion
noun
noun
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
- (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.
- (collective) A group of hares.
- A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
- a moving crowd
- a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
verb
noun
- a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
- a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
- waves breaking on the shore
- A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.
- (electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
- Ellipsis of horsebreaker.
- Something that breaks (something else).
- A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
- (colloquial) A breakdancer.
- (primarily plural) Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.
- The building in which such a machine is placed.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
- (primarily plural) Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
- (transitive) To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
- (transitive) To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
- (transitive) To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
- let saliva drivel from the mouth
noun
- A person employed to use this kind of woodworking tool.
- (mechanical engineering) A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
- (woodworking) A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
- a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
adj
noun
- One who dresses or prepares stone.
- (US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
- (UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
- (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
- A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
- (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
- (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
- (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
- A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
- A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
- One who dresses in a particular way.
- furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
- a cabinet with shelves
- a person who dresses in a particular way
- a wardrobe assistant for an actor
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
noun
noun
- Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
- (mining, historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.
- (by extension) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
- (slang, UK, Lancashire) A friend or mate.
- A person who maintains railway lines.
noun
- a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives
- A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.
- (computing) Alternative letter-case form of Whetstone (“benchmark”).
- (figurative) A stimulant.
verb
noun
- A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
- (in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
- (slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
- (Freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
noun
noun
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- A two-wheeled carriage.
- (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- (Canada, British, regional) A woodlouse.
- (zoology) A carpenter bee.
- a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
verb
noun
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
- (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.
- (collective) A group of hares.
- A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
- a moving crowd
- a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
verb
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