STONEWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stonework mean? 

• STONEWORK (noun)
  The noun STONEWORK has 1 sense:

1. masonry done with stone

  Familiarity information: STONEWORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STONEWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Masonry done with stone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

masonry (structure built of stone or brick by a mason)

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

cyclopean masonry (a primitive style of masonry characterized by use of massive stones of irregular shape and size)

 Context examples 

I drew back behind the stonework, and looked carefully out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is for the choir window in the church of St. Remi, and we had gone, my little helper and I, to see if it was indeed of the size for the stonework.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Over the low, heavily-lintelled door, in the centre of this old part, is chiseled the date, 1607, but experts are agreed that the beams and stonework are really much older than this.

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

Leaning his elbows upon the stonework, he was deeply plunged in reverie, when in a moment his thoughts were brought back to Villefranche and to the scene before him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In one place part of the stonework of the graves stretches out over the sandy pathway far below.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

With an easy pull he sent the shaft flickering gently up, falling upon the stonework within a foot of where Aylward was standing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My host, who stood on one side of the great fireplace, leaning against the stonework, made a graceful wave of his hand to the table, and said:—I pray you, be seated and sup how you please.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They paused, however, at the bridge, and, leaning their elbows upon the stonework, they stood looking down at their own faces in the glassy stream, and at the swift flash of speckled trout against the tawny gravel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)