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Meanings of mason in English

Portuguese
mação
Catalan
pedrer
Spanish
albañil
Wikidata

A craftsman who builds in stone or brick otherwise known as masonry.

        mação
        Portuguese
        franco-maçom
        Catalan
        maçó
        Wikidata

        A member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love.

              franco-maçom
              Catalan
              george mason
              Spanish
              george mason

              American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792)

                    george mason
                    Portuguese
                    james mason
                    Catalan
                    james mason
                    Spanish
                    james mason

                    English film actor (1909-1984)

                          james mason
                          Usage of mason in English
                          1
                          The master-mason was in charge of the whole of the building operations.
                          Life in a Mediæval City / Illustrated by York in the XVth Centur...
                          2
                          Leafcutter bees use tiny, circular bits of leaf; mason bees use mud.
                          Independent.ie
                          3
                          The merits of the Cromarty stone-mason began to attract some general attention.
                          The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 5. / The Songs of Scotland ...
                          4
                          The mason-work of the doors was executed with great care and dexterity.
                          James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
                          5
                          The nationwide search for the 77-year-old mason has degenerated into political finger-pointing.
                          The Irish Times
                          6
                          All the materials of this master-mason were ready to the last stone.
                          Tell England / A Study in a Generation
                          7
                          The council official who called knew very well I wasn't a mason.
                          The Guardian
                          8
                          He goes out, and proceeds to the house of the master mason.
                          Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
                          9
                          Derues himself revealed it, repeating the story which had satisfied the mason.
                          Derues / Celebrated Crimes
                          10
                          The mason-bee continues to build upon the ready-completed nest presented to her.
                          Fabre, Poet of Science
                          11
                          The master mason nodded approvingly when the answer was translated to him.
                          A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes
                          12
                          Next to Apollonius stood the carpenter, then the sprinkler, then the mason.
                          The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
                          13
                          Street, who restored it, possibly from the design of the same master-mason.
                          England of My Heart : Spring
                          14
                          Then you'll have to hire a mason to put in the fireplace.
                          Buffalo Roost / A Story of a Young Men's Christian Association B...
                          15
                          It is a celebration of stone and, specifically, of the mason's art.
                          The Irish Times
                          16
                          The Eskdale mason was evidently getting on, as he deserved to do.
                          The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer / With an Introductor...
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