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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In masonry, having the arris cut true, but the face beyond the arrisedge left projecting and comparatively rough, being simply dressed with a pitching-chisel: said of a block or of a whole piece of masonry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Stone Cutting) Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.

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