Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The business of cutting or hewing stones for walls, monuments, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hewing or dressing stone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
hewing ordressing ofstone .
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of the Crossbone Champs did some part-time stonecutting for the guy who owned the business.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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While he was away a booming jewelry manufacturing industry had sprung up in southern China, started by a small band of Hong Kong diamond merchants who set up stonecutting and polishing factories occupying the gap between low-cost India and ultraluxurious Brussels.
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In Michoacán, stonecutting has embellished cities like Morelia.
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In Michoacán, stonecutting has embellished cities like Morelia.
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One final branch includes toys, leatherwork, stonecutting, wax, pattern-cut paper (papel picado), corn leaves, featherwork, straw painting (popoteria), and pasta de caña (sculpture made from a mixture using the inner core of cornstalks).
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One of the Crossbone Champs did some part-time stonecutting for the guy who owned the business.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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One final branch includes toys, leatherwork, stonecutting, wax, pattern-cut paper (papel picado), corn leaves, featherwork, straw painting (popoteria), and pasta de caña (sculpture made from a mixture using the inner core of cornstalks).
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In Michoacán, stonecutting has embellished cities like Morelia.
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One of the Crossbone Champs did some part-time stonecutting for the guy who owned the business.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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One final branch includes toys, leatherwork, stonecutting, wax, pattern-cut paper (papel picado), corn leaves, featherwork, straw painting (popoteria), and pasta de caña (sculpture made from a mixture using the inner core of cornstalks).
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