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Freemason


Definition:

  • (n.) One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By 6 May oil was reported as reaching the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana and Freemason Island in the Breton national wildlife refuge .
  • (2) But he and Mozart were both freemasons and, at a time when the movement was regarded by the Archduke as a potentially subversive political threat, sought to create an opera that is about spiritual trial and initiation.
  • (3) According to journalists and investigators who worked with him, Rees exploited his position as a freemason to make links with masonic police officers who illegally sold him information on targets chosen by the News of the World, the Sunday Mirror and the Daily Mirror.
  • (4) One friendly freemason engaged my three-year-old, who was dressed as Dracula, in banter about her outfit, rich coming from a man who moments before was blindfolded in a pair of one-legged trousers, like the singer from Imagination.
  • (5) In May 2010, there appears a bizarre spat with another Wiki contributor, Widefox, over claims that Shapps was a member of the Freemasons.
  • (6) Sadly, the temple and museum were closed that day, as the freemasons were assembled within, deciding the future of the world.
  • (7) Colin Ashford, who makes cufflinks, medals and regalia for Freemasons, in a Victorian workshop, doubted the government's figures on jobs and growth.
  • (8) Last Saturday, I took my children on a tour of the Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden.
  • (9) Only now was he throwing in his lot with a US government that detested the idealistic but ramshackle coalition of six parties headed by Dr Salvador Allende, the country doctor and upstanding freemason who was set on introducing elements of social democracy in a country long organised for the benefit of the landowners, industrialists and money men.
  • (10) The Bank's building looks impenetrable and its internal structure reeks of hierarchy, like a Freemason's hall.
  • (11) The US coastguard confirmed for the first time that oil had made its way past protective booms and was surrounding Freemason Island.
  • (12) Interestingly, all the Freemasons I spoke to that weekend were either builders or were in the police service.
  • (13) Bin Laden also owned Bloodlines of the Illuminati, by Fritz Springmeier, an Oregon man who has written extensively about the eponymous semi-historical sect, mind control, Jehovah’s witnesses and Freemasons.
  • (14) But, luckily for my disappointed children, suddenly hundreds of freemasons streamed from the temple into Covent Garden, each dressed in trademark black suit, and carrying a little bag just big enough to hold his apron, his dagger and some Shippam’s fish paste sandwiches from his freemason mum, in case he got hungry while manipulating global events.
  • (15) The father of two has previously declared a membership of the freemasons, although he said in 2009 that he had not been active for many years.
  • (16) Italian-speakers might enjoy Libernazione.it , a website that has an automatic generator of Grillini insults, mostly about banks, subservient media, freemasons and corrupt politicians.
  • (17) Messina Denaro is allegedly shielded by powerful freemasons in the port town of Trapani , near Castelvetrano, where magistrates probing mafia-masonry links last year received anonymous death threats and discovered a listening device in their office.

Tiler


Definition:

  • (n.) A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
  • (n.) A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) asks Richard Glover A In 1990 England's U-21 squad won the eight-nation tournament in Toulon for the first time with the following squad: Crossley, Muggleton, Lee, Sharpe, Le Saux, Barrett, Tiler, Sherwood, James, Ebbrell (capt.
  • (2) The roof tiler was then taken to Bowral police station where he later slumped to the ground and died.
  • (3) A former carpenter (Chapman) and roof tiler (Bustin) from Norwich, who became personal trainers and, in October 2011, decided to share their expertise on YouTube, pulling in a muscular 41,000 subscribers in the process.
  • (4) Instead he works as a tiler whenever he gets the chance.
  • (5) He also found there was little awareness about roofs being a "typically dangerous electrical place" among other professionals such as builders, tilers, painters and pest controllers and also among homeowners.
  • (6) Ed Miliband seems a bit of a schoolboy.” Steve, a 53-year-old tiler, is also considering voting Tory because they have “more of a backbone” than other parties.
  • (7) The accident, in which five people died, including his friend and employer, the Bournemouth managing director Brian Tiler, left him with no sense of smell and a pronounced facial tic.
  • (8) So what exactly makes a top tiler, premier plasterer or world-class window dresser?

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