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  • noun Plural form of stonecutter.

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Examples

  • Finally, mountains can be brought down by humble stonecutters.

    Of Mushi and Cthulhu » Manga Worth Reading 2010

  • Alan Mulally of Ford, one of the CEOs in the book whose performance matches his rhetoric, tells a version of management guru Peter Drucker's famous story of the stonecutters.

    Views From the Top Alan Murray 2011

  • Nicholson and Morris had architects, construction foremen, and scores of stonecutters and artisans working at the site, many of them going unpaid for months.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • There are no people in these scenes, but they are silently populated by generations of steamfitters and metalworkers and stonecutters who assembled the city, and the engineers and supers and valve readers who keep it running now.

    Unseen Washington: Photographer David Deal sees the city's hidden side 2010

  • And from all parts of the empire, there were assembled great numbers of skilled stonecutters (sangtarash) , lapidaries (munabbatkar) , and inlayers (parchingar) , each one an expert in his art, who commenced work along with other craftsmen.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Now they saw the secret ford that Caleb and his stonecutters had been hiding all along.

    THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010

  • Over in the stonecutters hut, meanwhile, master carver

    Frenchman Builds a Dream Ch 2010

  • And from all parts of the empire, there were assembled great numbers of skilled stonecutters (sangtarash) , lapidaries (munabbatkar) , and inlayers (parchingar) , each one an expert in his art, who commenced work along with other craftsmen.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • A Frenchman in love with medieval architecture is building a castle -- complete with turrets, a drawbridge and stonecutters dressed in 13th-century garb -- deep in the woods of northwest Arkansas.

    Frenchman Builds a Dream Ch 2010

  • My spies and scouts tell me that for the past two months Bin-Nun has had his stonecutters building a bridge of stepping-stones across one of the fords in the Jordan.

    THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010

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