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Stonecutting   Listen
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Stonecutting  n.  Hewing or dressing stone.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stonecutting" Quotes from Famous Books



... down through the ravine, turning many wheels, but nowhere gathering in any form or place which seemed good for trout. On either side stood shanties, and ramshackle buildings where such things as stonecutting and blacksmithing were done. Along the waterside ran the tracks of our Terminal and Belt Line System, on which trains of flat-cars always stood, engaged in the work of carrying away the cliffs, in which they were aided and abetted by giant derricks and the fiends of dynamite and nitro-glycerin. ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick



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