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• n  someone who cuts or carves stone

• They refused to set foot in their church again, until their stonecutter was reinstated.
• Born in central Sweden, the son of a stonecutter, he seemed to have achieved his natural apogee when he became a blacksmith of local renown and a humble member of the abstemious .
• The stonecutter Marinus during his lifetime railed against wars to gain territory, on his deathbed gave his people a creed which has guided them from the Fourth Century until .

• cutter

News & Articles

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• Gravestone of late Mayor Koch had birth date wrong
  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Mayor Ed Koch was 88 years old when he died in February, despite what his gravestone said. A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The correct year of 1924 ...
  June 18, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Meir Shalev in Ha'aretz
  The Arab stonecutter and his three sons had already completed the preparation of the three stone slabs for the work,writes Meir Shalev in the novel "His House in the Desert." "They carried them on round wooden poles and placed them...
• Thurston Clarke in San Francisco Chronicle
  As Clarke writes: "Kennedy was more than the 'principal architect' of his inaugural address; he was its stonecutter and mason, too."