(n.) The work or performance of a mason; as, good or bad masonry; skillful masonry.
(n.) That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar.
(n.) The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; freemasonry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The images, of corpses pulled out from beneath collapsed masonry, to a bloodied underground emergency room floor, are simply appalling.
(2) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
(3) Owners of the walls have cut out chunks of masonry and plaster to remove them for sale, mourned by local people who had enjoyed the eruption of art into their streets.
(4) The RPG launcher fired first, releasing a thundering boom, a huge cloud of dust and the sounds of cascading glass, metal and masonry.
(5) A 52-year-old senior officer in London [In] Tottenham I sustained in about the first seven or eight minutes a blow to the head from what must have been a piece of dense masonry.
(6) The Daily Telegraph contacted 50 masonry firms in their search for the stone, while the Sun set up a hotline for any information.
(7) A young Filipino family narrowly escaped injury when some of the shrapnel from masonry dislodged off the cemetery war hit their car.
(8) We treated fifteen patients who had been trapped under the masonry of collapsed buildings for various periods of time.
(9) The only clear view was in the front and there was definitely large bits of masonry and concrete being thrown.
(10) And the rubble itself, mountains of it: homes reduced to grey lumps of masonry, mangled metal, shards of glass.
(11) At Gaddafi's compound, supporters who gather nightly to act as human shields against the air strikes climbed on the shattered building shortly after the blasts, as chunks of masonry fell.
(12) By the time the funeral was over the streets were blocked by temporary barricades and littered with broken masonry, the tarmac scorched black after almost three days of rioting to protest against his murder, which Palestinians allege was carried out as a revenge attack for the killing of three Israeli teenagers .
(13) Within minutes to hours after extrication of survivors trapped under fallen masonry (and immediately following decompression of limbs), a massive volume of extracellular fluid is lost into the injured muscles, leading to circulatory failure.
(14) The Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday tried some investigative journalism to locate the boulder, contacting more than 50 masonry firms across the UK – none of whom admitted to creating the monument.
(15) The Guardian eventually tracked the stone down to a warehouse in south London , owned by Paye Stonework & Masonry Ltd.
(16) There was smoke and thick dust everywhere, fallen masonry and fittings were blocking sections of the steps and splinters of glass covered the staircase where Picasso’s sand-blasted lines hung undamaged.
(17) The remaining masonry stands against the dramatic backdrop of the Rumija mountains, with a reconstructed church and clock tower offering a haunting reminder of a time when this town was the most important in Montenegro.
(18) From rue Fontaine, bullets had ripped holes in the external masonry; inside you could see the shredded remains of furniture; the window frames had been shot out.
(19) The structures, selected from available buildings, were made of various materials (reinforced concrete, masonry, sandbags, and wood) and ranged in volume from 14m3 to 161 m3 with venting areas from 2.9 m2 to 11 m2.
(20) "There were a lot of police conscripts going inside and trying to find their friends, and there was masonry falling down on them in front of the building."