| 单词 | mason's mark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmason's mark mason's mark n. a distinctive mark carved or painted on a stone by the mason who dressed it. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > [noun] > a mason's sign mason's mark1697 banker mark1860 1697 E. Lhuyd Let. 22 Sept. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1712) 27 503 The Masons Marks on the Stones. 1888 Leamington Spa Courier 11 Aug. 7/6 Each man as he finishes his work at the banker, places his mark upon the stone before it leaves the shed. The banker is the stone bed or bench upon which a mason works... These marks have hence been called banker marks, and perhaps the name is more appropriate than that of masons marks. 1990 R. Castleden Minoans (1993) (BNC) 112 The impressive remains of the..temple of Zeus Thanatos stand on foundation courses of large blocks of stone which look like Minoan masonry: certainly many of them have distinctive Minoan ‘mason's marks’, the branch, the star and the trident. < as lemmas |
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