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		Definition of master mason in English: master masonnoun  1A skilled mason, especially one who oversees the construction of buildings.  master mason at the Tower of London  Example sentencesExamples -  Before the 20th century, house construction was traditionally the task of a village's master mason who selected, in consultation with the client, one of the common plan types and proceeded without any formal documents.
 -  The job requires a master mason to set the first course, grout bond beams, and install and tension the post-tension tendons.
 -  The identities of the architects - or more precisely of the master masons - responsible for both buildings are unknown.
 -  The master masons carved almost every centimetre of the central shrine's surfaces with religious reliefs.
 -  Anyone who arrived at the building site and claimed that they were a master mason would be tested by the Master Mason and by master masons already working on the site.
 
 2A fully qualified Freemason.  Example sentencesExamples -  It's also true that he was a Master Mason of the 33rd Degree, the highest you may rise, which is why I believe it was named Club 33 (there are many other theories).
 -  Socrates, James believes, was initiated as a Master Mason.
 -  In those days the office of Master Mason seems to have been held for life.
 -  My Father is a 32nd degree Mason, as was his father a Master Mason and a 7th Day Adventist.
 -  At this meeting, eighteen Master Masons signed the petition, praying for a Charter from Grand Lodge.
 
    Definition of master mason in US English: master masonnoun 1A skilled mason, especially one who employs other workers.  master mason at the Tower of London  Example sentencesExamples -  The job requires a master mason to set the first course, grout bond beams, and install and tension the post-tension tendons.
 -  The identities of the architects - or more precisely of the master masons - responsible for both buildings are unknown.
 -  The master masons carved almost every centimetre of the central shrine's surfaces with religious reliefs.
 -  Anyone who arrived at the building site and claimed that they were a master mason would be tested by the Master Mason and by master masons already working on the site.
 -  Before the 20th century, house construction was traditionally the task of a village's master mason who selected, in consultation with the client, one of the common plan types and proceeded without any formal documents.
 
 2A fully qualified Freemason.  Example sentencesExamples -  Socrates, James believes, was initiated as a Master Mason.
 -  My Father is a 32nd degree Mason, as was his father a Master Mason and a 7th Day Adventist.
 -  At this meeting, eighteen Master Masons signed the petition, praying for a Charter from Grand Lodge.
 -  In those days the office of Master Mason seems to have been held for life.
 -  It's also true that he was a Master Mason of the 33rd Degree, the highest you may rise, which is why I believe it was named Club 33 (there are many other theories).
 
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