dry-stone
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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They picked their way along the top of a crumbling dry-stone wall like tightrope walkers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
ETH Zurich researchers deployed an autonomous excavator, called HEAP, to build a six metre-high and sixty-five-metre-long dry-stone wall.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2023
Pat's speciality is dry-stone walling, and he's never short of tasks.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2022
The first time they entered Shush’s ancient synagogue, a monumental dry-stone structure on the edge of a fig orchard, it was full of livestock.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
I had with me an old man from the Lowlands, very good at the building of dry-stone dykes, a knowledgeable man in many ways, but especially in trees and gardens and such-like.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John
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