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Definition of Ashlars
1. ashlar [v] - See also: ashlar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashlars
Literary usage of Ashlars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year After the by James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1882)
"ashlars are bought by the foot, the hundred, and the load, sometimes singly. ...
But we read of great ashlars at far higher prices, and of two purchased by ..."
2. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"The size of the reused ashlars, 1 .20 m. wide, simply does not fit above either
the crude and irregular 0.90 m.-wide socle of the foundations on the Archaic ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1858)
"Sawed ashlars are the slabs, as they come £.-••••_ the mill, prepared for facing
the walls of ... Tooled ashlars are slabs our» - ed with parallel fluting«. ..."
4. Hodgson's Estimator and Contractor's Guide for Pricing Builder's Work by Frederick Thomas Hodgson (1904)
"Stone ashlars.—These are ordinarily 3 feet to 5 feet long, 1 foot high, ...
The labor on ashlars, including setting, is per square foot as follows: ..."
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