noun
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a person who is skilled in cutting and carving stone
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a machine used to dress stone
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Etymology
Origin of stonecutter
Example Sentences
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Among them was Anthony White, a Queensland stonecutter whose illness and death at age 36 were widely covered there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
A stonecutter by trade, Socrates publicly questioned sophists and politicians about good and evil, right and wrong.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
It goes back to a story Homa shared on a “No Laying Up” podcast four years ago about a stonecutter who hammers away on a huge boulder and shatters it with the 101st strike.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
Ina continued with her rules, which I plan to nail to a door somewhere or perhaps have etched in marble, so long as my local stonecutter has not been hit by those supply-chain glitches:
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
“But Emperor Zu did not live an extra nine hundred and ninety-nine years,” the stonecutter said.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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