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/ˈaSHlər/,
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ashlars, plural;
  1. Masonry made of large square-cut stones, typically used as a facing on walls of brick or stone

  2. A stone used in such masonry

  1. a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes
  2. Ashlar is prepared (or "") stone work of any type of stone. Stone masonry utilizing dressed stones is known as ashlar masonry, whereas masonry using irregularly shaped stones is known as rubble masonry. ...
  3. A large square stone; masonry making use of such stone blocks; A hurling stone used in warfare
  4. Finely dressed natural stone: the best grade of masonry.
  5. masonry having a face of square or rectangular stones, either smooth or textured.
  6. Accurately shaped, rectangular-cut stone unit also referred to as “cut stone”.
  7. these are dressed rectangular or square blocks of masonry fixed by stonemasons in regular courses to create a wall face.
  8. smooth square stones laid in a horizontal fashion; used for foundations or facing of masonry walls. (IMAGE)
  9. Squared blocks of smooth stone neatly trimmed to shape.
  10. Arrows should all point in the same direction with the tile bond displaced by half a tile in the length direction.
  11. slab, commonly rectangular in shape, of dressed stone for facing either exterior or interior walls.
  12. Angled patterns in a straight line of stonework.
  13. Ashlar is dressed stone work of any type of stone. Ashlar blocks are large rectangular blocks of masonry sculpted to have square edges and even faces. The blocks are generally 13 to 15 inches in height. When smaller than 11 inches, they are usually called "small ashlar".
  14. A class of masonry consisting of blocks of accurately dresed, cut, squared, and finished stone, faced and with clean sharp arrises, forming perfect courses, laid in mortar. ...
  15. squared stones, or sometimes wood shaped to look like squared stones that faces a building
  16. Masonry wrought to an even face and square edges.
  17. Describes a stone with cut edges, usually used for more formal walls and in buildings. It is usually laid in regular or broken horizontal courses. A stone may have a dressed or natural face. (ICS)
  18. stone accents and general stone masonary hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose.
  19. Stones cut smooth on all surfaces, including the face. From the Latin “axis” for board or plank (which also gives us “axis”, a straight line about which sometime rotates, “axle”, but apparently not “ax”. ...
  20. Stone that has been squared and laid in regular courses with fine joints. Render on the external walls of Victorian buildings was often ruled to imitate this, while weatherboards were sometimes similarly imitative, (ashlar boards).
  21. Walls or facings of stonework laid in courses of evenly dressed stone with thin joints about 3mm thick, which should be raked out 20mm and pointed during cleaning down.
  22. Large, smooth-surfaced, square-cut stone, often used as facing on rough wall.
  23. A building block. A "rough ashlar" is one that has merely been excavated from a quarry. A "perfect ashlar" is one that has been squared and polished, and thus made fit for a builder's use. Speculative Masons take the ashlar as a symbol for their minds and consciences.
  24. A stone block finished with squared sides.
  25. Any squared building stone. The term usually refers to thin stone used as facing. If the horizontal courses are level, it is called coursed ashlar, if they are broken, it is called random ashlar.