Definition of Dry masonry

1. Noun. Masonry without mortar.

Specialized synonyms: Dry Wall, Dry-stone Wall
Generic synonyms: Masonry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dry Masonry

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dry hire
dry hole
dry humor
dry humour
dry ice
dry kiln
dry labour
dry lake
dry lakes
dry land
dry leprosy
dry martini
dry martinis
dry masonry (current term)
dry measure
dry measures
dry milk
dry mop
dry mouth
dry mustard
dry needling
dry nurse
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dry objective
dry off
dry one's eyes
dry out
dry pack

Literary usage of Dry masonry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1914)
"dry masonry. The three preceding classes of masonry, ashlar, squared-stone and rubble, are laid with mortar; and there are three other grades of what may be ..."

2. Manual of the American Railway Engineering Association by American Railway Engineering Association (1911)
"dry masonry. 63. dry masonry shall include dry retaining walls and slope walls. 64. Retaining Walls and dry masonry shall include all walls in which rubble ..."

3. Structural Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of by Milo Smith Ketchum (1914)
"dry masonry.—dry masonry shall include dry' retaining walls and slope walls. 64. Retaining Walls.—Retaining Walls and dry masonry shall include all walls in ..."

4. Structural Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of by Milo Smith Ketchum (1918)
"dry masonry. 63. dry masonry.—dry masonry shall include dry retaining walls and slope walls. 64. Retaining Walls.—Retaining Walls and dry masonry shall ..."

5. Railway Estimates, Design, Quantities and Costs by Fred Lavis (1917)
"RR dry masonry Walls.—On many of the older railroads in the Eastern part of the United States, ... dry masonry has always been used extensively in ..."

6. The Design of Walls, Bins, and Grain Elevators by Milo Smith Ketchum (1911)
"dry masonry.—dry masonry shall include dry retaining walls and slope walls. ... Retaining Walls of dry masonry shall include all walls in which rubble stone ..."

7. The Design of Highway Bridges and the Calculation of Stresses in Bridges Trusses by Milo Smith Ketchum (1908)
"dry masonry.—dry masonry will include dry retaining walls and slope walls. DRY RETAINING WALLS. 62. Dry retaining walls will include all dry rubble work for ..."

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