Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In bricklaying, a straight piece of marble applied to the rubbed side of the brick to prove whether the surface is straight or not.

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Examples

  • By patient persistence of effort rearing up the fabric of my life firmly upon Him, and grafting every stone of it -- if I might so use the metaphor -- into the bedding-stone, which is Christ, I shall be strong, peaceful, and pure.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868

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