dry-stone
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dry-stone (not comparable)
- (of a wall, bridge, building, etc.) Constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar.
- 2016, Angus J. L. Winchester, Dry Stone Walls: History and Heritage[1], Amberley Publishing, →ISBN:
- The first part of the book traces the history of dry stone walls from medieval times to the present. The standard form of most walls probably dates from Tudor times but the great era of wall-building in the uplands took place comparatively recently, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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