dimension stone
Americannoun
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Covering about 50 acres and almost 600 feet deep, it lays claim to being the world’s largest operating deep-hole quarry for dimension stone.
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2022
Besides, it depends on the owner whether he desires to build in brick, or rubble work, or dimension stone.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
Next comes the consideration of stone-quarries from which dimension stone and supplies of rubble to be used in building are taken and brought together.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
Its purpose is to release dimension stone from its place in the bed, by so directing an explosive force that it is made to cleave the rock in a prescribed line without injury.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various
This we may learn from several monuments in the environs of the city, which are built of marble or dimension stone, but on the inside packed with masonry between the outer walls.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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