stonemasonn.
/ˈstəʊnˌmeɪs(ə)n/ A workman who shapes and lays stones in building: = mason n.1 1. stonemason's lung (Pathol.): cf. stone-cutter's disease at stone-cutter n. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with stone > [noun]
masonc1275
hardhewer1448
masoner1492
Freemason1504
freestone mason1649
stonemason1758
stone-worker1898
stoneman1912
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by dust or fibre
stone-cutter's disease or phthisis1540
phthisis1821
black lung1837
anthracosis1838
shoddy fever1851
potter's consumption1863
siderosis1869
collier's phthisis1871
iron lung1872
chalicosis1878
pneumonoconiosis1878
tabacosis1879
byssinosis1881
pneumoconiosis1881
silicosis1881
potter's rot1895
fur-fever1905
stonemason's lung1905
asbestosis1927
anthracosilicosis1929
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis1935
bagassosis1941
bagasse1943
berylliosis1943
thesaurosis1958
1758 C. Smith Let. 23 Feb. in Lett. to Washington (1899) II. 269 Our Stone Masons has been Sick, Ever Since you have been Away, and our Stone Work is much Behind hand.
1770 G. Washington Diaries I. 370 Joseph Gort a stone Mason came here to raise Stone.
1809 London Chron. 22 Aug. 181/2 Seven stone-masons were landing a stone in Cumberland-street.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. ii. 54 Jock Ashler the stane-mason, that ca's himsel an arkitect.
1905 H. D. Rolleston Dis. Liver 185 An analogous form [of hepatic cirrhosis] associated with stonemason's lung-silicosis.
Derivatives
stonemason v. (transitive) to carve or work as a stonemason.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > build or construct with stone [verb (transitive)]
masonc1450
stone1600
masonry1842
stonemason1859
1859 C. Dickens Let. 13 June (1997) IX. 77 One of the balustrades of the destroyed old Rochester bridge has been..presented to me by the contractor..and has been duly stonemasoned and set up on the lawn.
stone-masonry n. the art of, or work executed by, a stonemason: = masonry n. 2, 1a.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun]
mason-craft1412
masonry?a1425
cementary1586
masoning1678
stonework1793
stoning1797
stone-masonry1818
stone-working1875
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > stonework or masonry
stoneworkc1000
masonrya1425
mason-worka1450
mortar1582
stone-masonry1818
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 174 Despite the superior advantage of stone masonry.
1897 A. Drucker tr. von Ihering Evol. Aryans 110 The difference between timber-work and stone-masonry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
<
n.1758