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单词 ashlar
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Definition of ashlar in English:

ashlar

noun ˈaʃləˈæʃlər
mass noun
  • 1Masonry made of large square-cut stones, used as a facing on walls of brick or stone rubble.

    seven windows are set in ashlar along the upper floor
    as modifier ashlar blocks
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Much of the lower building work is to be reconstructed in stone ashlar with some units to include dormer, full-length windows and balconies.
    • It is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings on a granite plinth.
    • The two courtyards use an existing fan arched gate (formerly closed with granite ashlar facing) on Diamond Street.
    • As in his earlier capitols, Nichols constructed the walls of the lower floor out of local sandstone but built the walls of the upper floors out of brick covered with stucco, scored, and painted to resemble smooth ashlar.
    • While easily discernible in plan, the shift from stack bond to traditionally bonded ashlar is too subtle to distinguish the two forms from the street.
    • The defensive wall was of fine ashlar masonry with a pronounced batter.
    • Other citizens hauled away truckloads of carved ashlar and flagstones to build garden walls and terraces.
    • The frame is filled in with triple glazing on the upper storey, with ashlar stone blocks on the first floor, and is left open on the ground floor to form a colonnade.
    • In the courtrooms, fabric-wrapped acoustical panels give the walls an ashlar pattern similar to that of the exterior.
    • There are numerous cracks in ashlar stones on the external elevation.
    • It should be remembered that the buildings of Regency Newcastle differ from Nash's London by being of finely cut ashlar, as opposed to the capital's stucco.
    • The two-bedroomed apartments, spread over four floors, benefit from a unique setting and feature a facade of ashlar stones with carved features.
    • A handsome ivy-clad ashlar mansion, the house was built overlooking the Blackwater Valley in the 1770s.
    • The ground or basement story of the Alabama capitol was constructed of traditional masonry consisting of ashlar walls made of locally quarried sandstone.
    • The younger man's boot scraped along the surface of the tower wall, finding a narrow crevice between the blocks of ashlar that might support him.
    • The church itself, begun in the 1150s, has an eleven-bay nave of finely cut ashlar masonry, the seven westernmost bays for lay brothers and those to the east for choir monks.
    • There was, on the one hand, the precise architecture, the cold ashlar blocks; on the other, the deep personal loss.
    • The building has an ashlar stone base with an arcade at ground level.
    • In our work at the site some thirty or so years later we recorded significant damage resulting from bulldozing and found three ashlar blocks.
    1. 1.1count noun A stone used in ashlar.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The basalt ashlars have protruding bosses and roughly dressed margins, which give the impression of order and unity.
      • These ashlars are ‘finely shaped parallelepipeds,’ some of which are nearly cubical.
      • Walls of local ashlar to the left and a flush stone dado to the right augment this feeling of sedimentation, of Baldeweg's building being literally of the earth.
      • The forum plaza is bounded on its east by a wall constructed in segments of ashlars and rough stones.
      • Some of the ashlars, including those on either side of the doors, were found to have been robbed out.
      • These would be foundations of granite ashlars on top of the rock on the first row of walls.
      • On the borders of the ashlars, subject to widespread substitutions, the effects of compression are visible.
      • The tombs were made of ashlars with dry joints, or of bricks and mortar.
      • The most important was the third course of ashlars belonging to the south facade east of the door.
      • Mr Wilshaw promotes the idea of replacement of the damaged stones with reclaimed ashlars.
      • The ray tracing rendering has been applied on single stones, pudding-stone and travertine ashlars.
      • Over the centuries, the fine straight lines and margins of some of the ashlars have eroded away.
      • As will be seen shortly, this ramp was used to lower ashlars for transport under the perimeter of Cheops.
      • These exterior walls had often padded ashlars and were separated by 4 m. from each other.
      • The gaps above the designated ashlars have been cleared of debris and new ashlars have been inserted.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French aisselier from Latin axilla, diminutive of axis 'plank'.

 
 

Definition of ashlar in US English:

ashlar

nounˈæʃlərˈaSHlər
  • 1Masonry made of large square-cut stones, typically used as a facing on walls of brick or stone.

    seven windows are set in ashlar along the upper floor
    as modifier ashlar blocks
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Much of the lower building work is to be reconstructed in stone ashlar with some units to include dormer, full-length windows and balconies.
    • The ground or basement story of the Alabama capitol was constructed of traditional masonry consisting of ashlar walls made of locally quarried sandstone.
    • The two-bedroomed apartments, spread over four floors, benefit from a unique setting and feature a facade of ashlar stones with carved features.
    • There was, on the one hand, the precise architecture, the cold ashlar blocks; on the other, the deep personal loss.
    • Other citizens hauled away truckloads of carved ashlar and flagstones to build garden walls and terraces.
    • The building has an ashlar stone base with an arcade at ground level.
    • The church itself, begun in the 1150s, has an eleven-bay nave of finely cut ashlar masonry, the seven westernmost bays for lay brothers and those to the east for choir monks.
    • As in his earlier capitols, Nichols constructed the walls of the lower floor out of local sandstone but built the walls of the upper floors out of brick covered with stucco, scored, and painted to resemble smooth ashlar.
    • The two courtyards use an existing fan arched gate (formerly closed with granite ashlar facing) on Diamond Street.
    • The younger man's boot scraped along the surface of the tower wall, finding a narrow crevice between the blocks of ashlar that might support him.
    • In our work at the site some thirty or so years later we recorded significant damage resulting from bulldozing and found three ashlar blocks.
    • It should be remembered that the buildings of Regency Newcastle differ from Nash's London by being of finely cut ashlar, as opposed to the capital's stucco.
    • It is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings on a granite plinth.
    • There are numerous cracks in ashlar stones on the external elevation.
    • The frame is filled in with triple glazing on the upper storey, with ashlar stone blocks on the first floor, and is left open on the ground floor to form a colonnade.
    • The defensive wall was of fine ashlar masonry with a pronounced batter.
    • In the courtrooms, fabric-wrapped acoustical panels give the walls an ashlar pattern similar to that of the exterior.
    • A handsome ivy-clad ashlar mansion, the house was built overlooking the Blackwater Valley in the 1770s.
    • While easily discernible in plan, the shift from stack bond to traditionally bonded ashlar is too subtle to distinguish the two forms from the street.
    1. 1.1 A stone used in ashlar.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The gaps above the designated ashlars have been cleared of debris and new ashlars have been inserted.
      • The ray tracing rendering has been applied on single stones, pudding-stone and travertine ashlars.
      • These exterior walls had often padded ashlars and were separated by 4 m. from each other.
      • Walls of local ashlar to the left and a flush stone dado to the right augment this feeling of sedimentation, of Baldeweg's building being literally of the earth.
      • The most important was the third course of ashlars belonging to the south facade east of the door.
      • The basalt ashlars have protruding bosses and roughly dressed margins, which give the impression of order and unity.
      • The tombs were made of ashlars with dry joints, or of bricks and mortar.
      • Mr Wilshaw promotes the idea of replacement of the damaged stones with reclaimed ashlars.
      • On the borders of the ashlars, subject to widespread substitutions, the effects of compression are visible.
      • These ashlars are ‘finely shaped parallelepipeds,’ some of which are nearly cubical.
      • As will be seen shortly, this ramp was used to lower ashlars for transport under the perimeter of Cheops.
      • These would be foundations of granite ashlars on top of the rock on the first row of walls.
      • The forum plaza is bounded on its east by a wall constructed in segments of ashlars and rough stones.
      • Some of the ashlars, including those on either side of the doors, were found to have been robbed out.
      • Over the centuries, the fine straight lines and margins of some of the ashlars have eroded away.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French aisselier from Latin axilla, diminutive of axis ‘plank’.

 
 
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