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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“How many kids staring at their iPads are even aware that they can grow up to be a stonecutter, a traditional carpenter, a mason?”
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
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
“I was told you were honored by kings, and even invited to reside at the Imperial Palace, but you refused,” the stonecutter continued.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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