stonecutter
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stone·cut·ter
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Definition of stonecutter
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: one that cuts, carves, or dresses stone
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: a machine for dressing stone
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Examples of stonecutter in a Sentence
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He was born in nearby Padua and worked as a stonecutter before moving to Vicenza in 1524. — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, "Escape Venice’s tourist crush with a trip to Vicenza, home of great Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio," 30 July 2019 Laborers lead donkeys and camels with loads of building material to the site, while stonecutters and masons climb the wall and occasionally suffer falls and other mishaps. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Ancient “comic strip” depicts the founding of a Roman city," 10 Oct. 2018 Within four years, nearly 50 more engraved stones surfaced from all over Georgia and North Carolina, mostly by a Georgia stonecutter. — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, "Dismissed as a forgery, could a mysterious stone found near Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ be real?," 5 July 2018 But a skeptical reporter with the Saturday Evening Post, in a devastating 1941 investigative article, unmasked the Georgia stonecutter as a fraud. — Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, "Is This Inscribed Stone a Notorious Forgery—or the Answer to America’s Oldest Mystery?," 29 May 2018 Soon after, a Georgia stonecutter found more than three dozen stones, also claiming to have been written by Dare. — Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, "Is This Inscribed Stone a Notorious Forgery—or the Answer to America’s Oldest Mystery?," 29 May 2018 The area was once home to Renaissance sculptors and stonecutters who worked in the nearby pietra serena quarries; Boccaccio, Michelangelo, and even Mark Twain have called Settignano home. — Emiko Davies, Condé Nast Traveler, "A Road Trip Through Tuscany That's All About the Food," 26 Feb. 2018 After the damaged sustained in 1978, the statue’s original sculptor, Heinz Warneke, prepared a cast for a new ear, which was put in place by Vincenzo Palumbo, a master carver who was the head stonecutter at Washington’s National Cathedral. — Rob Tornoe, Philly.com, "Who damaged Penn State's Nittany Lion statue?," 27 Feb. 2018 Guys who wake you up at six with electric stonecutters. — Joe Queenan, WSJ, "Freedoms for an Age of Nonstop Botherers," 8 Dec. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'stonecutter.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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stonecutter
noun
English Language Learners Definition of stonecutter
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: a person who cuts or carves stone
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