Cut stone


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Related to Cut stone: vein cut
stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.

See also: Cut

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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They are very thick, and are often plastered and whitewashed and capped with projecting slabs of cut stone. Trees from gardens above hang their swaying tendrils down, and contrast their bright green with the whitewash or the black lava of the walls and make them beautiful.
The bridges are of a single span--a single arch--of cut stone, without a support, and paved on top with flags of lava and ornamental pebblework.
The pathway in the center of the street was unpaved, but the floors of the arcades were cut stone of various shapes and sizes but all carefully fitted and laid without mortar.
"When they reached Circe's house they found it built of cut stones, on a site that could be seen from far, in the middle of the forest.
"'We went,' said he, 'as you told us, through the forest, and in the middle of it there was a fine house built with cut stones in a place that could be seen from far.
For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
4 January 2019 - Cincinnati, Ohio-based kitchen cabinets and countertops provider Sims-Lohman has acquired Ohio, US-based stone fabricators Canton Cut Stone and Cleveland Cut Stone, the company said.
M2 EQUITYBITES-January 4, 2019-Sims-Lohman Acquires Canton Cut Stone, Cleveland Cut Stone
Company has recently added New England Drystack as an alternative to its Rectangular Cut Stone face, both offering fast, economical solutions for most retaining wall conditions.
While most people prefer the shine and luster of a professionally polished cut stone, many also like desert diamonds in their naturally rough and uncut state.
The precise detail and craftsmanship of Continental Cut Stone, the limestone fabricator, in concert with C.W.
Natural slate roofs, cut stone detailing and high performance Georgian style timber windows will reinforce the elegant traditional architecture, which is to be further complemented by brick and stone boundary walls, steel gates and estate fencing.