(n.) Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 13 rooms all retain a sense of history, with exposed stonework, and most have sea views.
(2) The private owners of some of Britain's most magnificent houses will be invited for the first time to apply for grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore their crumbling stonework.
(3) Focal outbreaks of malaria occurred on 76 spots in 38 counties, including civil-run mines, stoneworks and lumberyard sites, accounting for 140,00 migrants doing temporary work there.
(4) His father has built a new two-storey home near the site of their old house, with meticulous stonework behind the hearth.
(5) The Guardian eventually tracked the stone down to a warehouse in south London , owned by Paye Stonework & Masonry Ltd.
(6) Since the roof of Midhowe has long since gone, Grant covered up the exposed stonework with hangar-like structure, but the curious thing is that this doesn't detract at all from its powerful and brooding atmosphere.
(7) The church has been cleaned up, its bullet-riddled stained glass windows and roof replaced, although the stonework still carries evidence of the crime.
(8) On a wooden gantry 30 metres above Glasgow’s busy city centre, specialist masons are preparing to remove the first layer of stonework from the west wall of the Mackintosh library.
(9) It depends on how much money they have to keep it going: there are annual repairs, generational costs such as maintaining the stonework, the roof, the wiring and the cost of paying the cleaners and other staff.
(10) Social housing is the lifeblood of London, London will be losing its lifeblood Eddie Izzard A lot of what he thinks is going wrong with inequality in cities like London is summed up for him in the stonework of the Sutton estate mansion blocks.
(11) The word “trust” has at some point been hacked off the stonework leaving a blank between “Sutton” and “dwellings”.
(12) Then an inch of mortar falls, and the stonework begins to slide.
(13) The effect of weathered stonework has been immaculately recreated by Richard Nutbourne and his team of scenic artists – who usually work on stage sets for the opera and ballet next door.
(14) Delicately carved white capitals which were miraculously preserved for 1,800 years under thick clay now sit, discoloured by air pollution, in pools of rainwater, while cracks caused by winter ice have appeared in the stonework.
(15) "Over the months we have recorded and scrutinised every square centimetre of Stonehenge in unparalleled detail, revealing over 700 areas of stoneworking, rock art, graffiti, damage and restoration."
(16) Driving the need for modernisation are the threat of fire, water damage decay and dilapidation, it says, and the combined effect of pollution and lack of maintenance, which have caused decay to the stonework.
Stonewort
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.
Example Sentences:
(1) A glacial lake set among ancient limestone pastures and upland hill farms, it is home to rare plants and animals including stonewort, sheltering pea mussels and the three-spined stickleback.