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dry-stone

adjective

  1. (of a wall) made without mortar


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They found at last their resting place, a sheltered ledge of dry stone in the hollow of a hill.

I had not taken twenty steps when I ran up against the dry-stone dyke that bordered the Inns of Tynrec.

It was surrounded by a dry stone wall, forming a court, the entrance to which was closed by hurdles.

Any good dry stone not liable to disintegrate can be used as metal for foundation for either telford or macadam construction.

There they erected a circular wall of dry stone, about a half quarter of a league in diameter, leaving in it only two gateways.

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