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Mason

One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.

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Artificer 76% connected

An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

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Artisan 76% connected

One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist.

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Brother 76% connected

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a…

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Knight Templar 76% connected

See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.

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Masonic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.

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Masonic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.

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Freemasonry 70% connected

The institutions or the practices of freemasons.

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Masonry 70% connected

The art or occupation of a mason.

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Freemason 92% connected

One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of per…

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Acreage noun · 78% connection

an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming); "he wanted some acreage to build on"

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Aggregate noun · 78% connection

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

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Apothecary noun · 78% connection

One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

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Arch brick unknown · 78% connection

A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.

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Architecture noun · 78% connection

The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of c…

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Ashler noun · 78% connection

In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick.

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Bed noun · 78% connection

A course of stone or brick in a wall.

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Bonder noun · 78% connection

A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.

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Brick noun · 78% connection

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

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Bricklayer noun · 78% connection

One whose occupation is to build with bricks.

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Bridge noun · 78% connection

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to m…

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Builder noun · 78% connection

One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.

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Buttress noun · 78% connection

a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building

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Buttressing noun · 78% connection

a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building

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Center noun · 78% connection

a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"

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Centre noun · 78% connection

a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"

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Chimney noun · 78% connection

That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending throug…

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Closer noun · 78% connection

The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course.

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