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stone-cutter|ˈstəʊnˌkʌtə(r)|
1. One who cuts or carves stone; a workman engaged in shaping stone for building, ornamental, or other purposes; one who carves figures or inscriptions on stone.
stone-cutter's disease or stone-cutter's phthisis, an affection of the lungs, incident to stone-cutters, caused by inhaling the fine dust of the stones.
1540in Lett. & Papers Hen. VIII (1898) XVI. 195 Dirrike Johnson, stone cutter. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 505/1 Lapicida,..a quarrier: a hewer of stone: a stone cutter. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. ii. 63. 1684 Boyle Porousn. Solid Bodies vi. 101 The invention of staining or colouring white Marble,..casually lighted upon by an ingenious Stone-cutter in Oxford. 1724De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. I. iii. 69 This Island [Portland]..the Inhabitants being almost all Stone-Cutters, we found there was no very poor People among them. 1829S. Shaw Staffordsh. Potteries 131 The old Inscription was almost effaced, when two of the parish servants..paid a stone cutter to sink the letters. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 186 Chalicosis pulmonum is the name given to the pulmonary changes induced by the inhalation of stone-dust. It is also called stone-cutter's phthisis. 1877Ruskin St. Mark's Rest iv. (1894) 47 Desiring to show, not a mere symbol of a living man, but the man himself, as truly as the poor stone-cutter can carve him. 1896W. K. Leask Hugh Miller ii. 44 He was feeling the first effects of the stone-cutters' disease. 1908W. M. Ramsay Luke the Physician xii. 362 Then I conjecture that..the stone-cutter accidentally omitted the fourth hexameter.
b. A machine for cutting or shaping stone.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Stone-cutter, a machine for working a face on a stone or ashlar... It differs from the stone-dresser, which may be said to begin its duty after the surface is fairly flattened. 1884Ibid. Suppl. s.v. Stone Cutting Machine, Atchison's stone cutter.
†2. A surgeon who ‘cuts for the stone’ (cut v. 26 b); a lithotomist. Obs.
1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 218 No People in the World are more subject [than the Netherlanders] to that Disease [sc. stone], as the Number and Excellency of Stone-cutters in that Country may plainly prove. 1787Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 32 The Egyptians..had..not only regular physicians..but likewise stone-cutters, oculists, aurists, &c.
So ˈstone-ˌcutting, the process or art of cutting or shaping stone; also attrib.
1611Cotgr., Statuaire, (the art of) Stone-cutting, or Statue-making. 1828P. Nicholson (title) A popular..treatise on Masonry and Stone-cutting. 1838H. Martineau Western Trav. I. 225 The stone-cutting department. |