sb. [f. STONE sb. + MASON sb.1] A workman who shapes and lays stones in building: = MASON sb.1 1.
Stonemason’s lung (Path.): cf. stone-cutter’s disease (STONE-CUTTER 1).
1809. Lond. Chron., 22 Aug., 181/2. Seven stone-masons were landing a stone in Cumberland-street.
1824. Scott, St. Ronan’s, ii. Jock Ashler the stane-mason, that ca’s himsell an arkiteck.
1905. Rolleston, Dis. Liver, 185. An analogous form [of hepatic cirrhosis] associated with stonemason’s lung-silicosis.
Hence Stonemason v., trans. to carve or work as a stonemason; Stone-masonry, the art of, or work executed by, a stonemason: = MASONRY 1, 2.
1859. Dickens, Lett. (1880), II. 95. One of the balustrades of the destroyed old Rochester bridge has been … presented to me by the contractor … and has been duly *stonemasoned and set up on the lawn.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxxii. Despite the superior advantage of *stone-masonry.
1897. A. Drucker, trans. Ihering’s Evol. Aryan, 110. The difference between timber-work and stone-masonry.
