stone laying
Setting building blocks
Stone laying is the craft or act of setting stones in construction—building walls, pathways, foundations, or decorative features by positioning and securing stones in place.
The term covers both rough fieldstone work and precise masonry: The stone laying took three days to complete.
Often appears as two words or hyphenated (stone-laying) when used as an adjective: stone-laying techniques.
- cornerstoneFoundational building block
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- masonryBuilding with mortared blocks
- mortarGrinding bowl or binder
- brickFired clay building unit
ceremony · trowel · dedication · plaque · groundbreaking · memorial · granite · marble · construction · edifice · monument · chisel · cement · bedrock · building block · ritual · commemoration · building
- yard workmowing, lawn mowing, weeding, pruning, raking
- stone pavingcobblestone, flagstone, setts, bluestone, travertine
stone layingdemolition
Deliberate structural destruction
dismantling · tearing down · wrecking · deconstruction · razing
stone, laying, stones, stoned, stoning, stony, stonework, stonecutter, milestone