dry-stone
dry-stone adjective: constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar.
Adjective
dry-stone (not comparable)
- Constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar.
- dry-stone wall
- The first part of the book traces the history of dry stone walls from medieval times to the present. The standard form of most walls probably dates from Tudor times but the great era of wall-building in the uplands took place comparatively recently, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.2016, Angus J. L. Winchester, Dry Stone Walls: History and Heritage, Amberley Publishing, →ISBN
Forms of dry-stone
| alternative form | drystone |
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| alternative form | dry stone |
Origin of dry-stone
From dry + stone.
Words formed from dry-stone
Phrases with dry-stone
Questions about dry-stone
- What does dry-stone mean?
- Dry-stone means constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar.
- What part of speech is dry-stone?
- Dry-stone is an adjective.
Words near dry-stone in the dictionary
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