MASONRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Masonry mean? 

• MASONRY (noun)
  The noun MASONRY has 3 senses:

1. structure built of stone or brick by a mason

2. Freemasons collectively

3. the craft of a mason

  Familiarity information: MASONRY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASONRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Structure built of stone or brick by a mason

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("masonry" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "masonry"):

brickwork (masonry done with bricks and mortar)

dry masonry (masonry without mortar)

stonework (masonry done with stone)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Freemasons collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Freemasonry; Masonry

Hypernyms ("Masonry" is a kind of...):

secret society (a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers)

Meronyms (members of "Masonry"):

Freemason; Mason (a member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The craft of a mason

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("masonry" is a kind of...):

craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)

Domain member category:

float (make the surface of level or smooth)

mortar (plaster with mortar)

skimcoat (coat with a mixture of gypsum and spackle)

mud (plaster with mud)

parget (apply ornamental plaster to)

render-set (cover with two coats of plaster)

render (coat with plastic or cement)

daub; plaster (coat with plaster)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "masonry"):

bricklaying (the craft of laying bricks)

Holonyms ("masonry" is a part of...):

building; construction (the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones)

 Context examples 

Then with his lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built firmly into the massive masonry.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Outside was a considerable yard full of monumental masonry.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I descended, minding carefully where I went, for the stairs were dark, being only lit by loopholes in the heavy masonry.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Megalithic necropolises of Panoría and El Barranquete are cemeteries characterised by tombs built out of large stone slabs or masonry walls.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Their thin, shrill voices rose high above the roar of the flames and the crash of the masonry, like the yelping of a pack of wolves who see their quarry before them and know that they have well-nigh run him down.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)