Ashlar Definition

ăshlər
noun
A squared block of building stone.
American Heritage
A square-cut building stone.
Webster's New World
Masonry of such stones.
American Heritage
A thin, dressed, square stone used for facing masonry walls.
Webster's New World
A thin, dressed rectangle of stone for facing walls.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Ashlar

Noun

Singular:
ashlar
Plural:
ashlars

Origin of Ashlar

  • Middle English assheler from Old French aisselier board from aissele from Medieval Latin axicellus from Latin assis

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, from Old French esselier, from Latin axilla, diminutive of axis (“board, plank”).

    From Wiktionary

Ashlar Sentence Examples

  • The hearting is of rubble masonry, and the faces are coursed ashlar.

  • Grey tufa period; ashlar masonry of tufa, coated with fine white stucco; rubble work of lava.

  • The design of these entrance gateways is extremely simple and massive, depending for their effect on the fine ashlar masonry in which they are built, the decoration being more or less confined to ornamental disks.

  • The simple plain ashlar masonry still predominates, but the wall surface is broken up with sunk panels, sometimes with geometrical patterns in them.

  • The actual construction of successful masonry dams has varied from the roughest rubble masonry to ashlar work.

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Words Starting With

AASASH

Words Ending With

RARLAR

Unscrambles

ashlar

Words Starting With A and Ending With R

Starts With A & Ends With RStarts With AS & Ends With RStarts With A & Ends With AR

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With A6 Letter Words Ending With R