Definition of "stone-mason" []

• One who dresses stones for building, or builds with them; a builder in stone. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And there's Andy, a stone-mason, has ideas on everything,"
• "It might be the assembling of a particularly jolly crowd; a touch of anger against my architect or against a thieving stone-mason working on my barn; the death of my favourite horse in a barbed wire fence; or news of good fortune in the morning mail from my dealings with editors and publishers."
• "As lord of the Valle Grande manor, he has told visiting journalists his rags-to-riches story: how as a child he walked 10 kilometres to school, how he was apprenticed as a stone-mason but threw it up to emigrate, finding work in Germany and elsewhere, before returning to his roots laden with riches to build his fine hotel."