masoncraft

English

Etymology

From mason +‎ -craft.

Noun

masoncraft (countable and uncountable, plural masoncrafts)

The skills of a mason; expertise in building with stone, brick, etc.
- 1939, Oxoniensia - Volumes 4-7, page 88:
  The decay of masoncraft in the country generally is one of the things the lover of architecture most mourns, and this decay makes the preservation of the older work a matter of real national concern.
- 1979, Richard Morris, Cathedrals and Abbeys of England and Wales, page 105:
  Thus the second category of practica, which included carpentry and masoncraft, mirrored the theoretical science of mathematics.
- 2000, Malcolm Hislop, Medieval Masons:
  Monastic chronicles, building contracts and accounts and other contemporary documents have revealed a good deal of information about the practice of masoncraft in the Middle Ages.
Masonry; the work or output of a mason.
- 1896, Andrew Taylor, Ancient Towers and Doorways:
  Masoncraft, Freeman well shows, may, combined with writings, be a powerful factor in historic evidence; for the mind of a nation, at successive eras of its existence, is inscribed in its architecture.
- 1918, George Jeffery, A description of the historic monuments of Cyprus:
  These two places of the same name are singular in possessing large churches of a masoncraft which seems peculiar to the Carpass, as far as Cyprus is concerned, a masoncraft evidently imitated from the buildings of the Latin Crusaders established in Syria during the XIIth century.
- 1926, Oxfordshire Record Series - Volumes 8-9, page 40:
  For lightness and delicacy the masoncraft of Gloucester had no rivals at the time.
- 1988, Frances Ya-sing Tsu, Landscape Design in Chinese Gardens, page 102:
  These refined masoncrafts are decorated with motifs or patterns that match the surrounding architectural molding of terraces, the bases of buildings, or the stone railings.
- 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 191:
  The Silverman house was stoutly built, with snug masoncraft and tight joinery, but somehow the sudden storm pressed a vague draft through the dining room.