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dry-laid

dry-laid adjective: built or paved with stones, bricks, or blocks without using mortar or cement to glue them together.

Adjective

dry-laid (not comparable)

  1. Built or paved with stones, bricks, or blocks without using mortar or cement to glue them together.
    • The lowest-impact wall is the dry-laid stone wall, which is fitted together without mortar. Dry-laid walls are leaned back into the slope (this very particular lean is called batter) at a ratio of 1 foot of lean for every 3 to 6 feet of wall height, depending on the soil conditions and type of...2009, Owen E. Dell, “Chapter 14: Sustainable Hardscape Construction”, in Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies, page 221

Questions about dry-laid

What does dry-laid mean?
Dry-laid means built or paved with stones, bricks, or blocks without using mortar or cement to glue them together.
What part of speech is dry-laid?
Dry-laid is an adjective.

Words near dry-laid in the dictionary

  1. dry-labbed
  2. dry-labber
  3. dry-labbers
  4. dry-labbing
  5. dry-labs
  6. dry-laid
  7. dry-nurse
  8. dry-nurses
  9. dry-pipe valve
  10. dry-rot
  11. dry-run

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