0 a stonemason (= person who cuts stone) -- 石匠,石工(同 stonemason)
1 a Freemason -- 共濟會成員(同 Freemason)
Skilled masons could sometimes command these top rates, although few are mentioned in the accounts.
The master mason controlled 'the measure' and every dimension was a multiple of it.
Continuities also exist at the level of individual trades, as carpenters, masons, shoemakers and drapers' assistants were prominent in both periods.
The role of the masons in the ' defanatisation ' campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s still awaits proper treatment.
Some of them may have worked on the castles as masons or carpenters.
The notions of ' freedom, equality and fraternity ' among most masons did not have the narrow political connotations and definitions used by radical leaders.
That had worked well enough where it was a matter of a prosperous gentleman occasionally hiring a painter or carpenter or mason from the village.
He recently hired masons to install a new, beautiful and expensive, wrought iron door.