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  • 11stone wall — noun a fence built of rough stones; used to separate fields (Freq. 2) • Hypernyms: ↑fence, ↑fencing • Hyponyms: ↑dry wall, ↑dry stone wall * * * noun 1 …

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  • 12dry wall — noun 1. a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses • Syn: ↑wallboard, ↑drywall • Hypernyms: ↑board • Hyponyms: ↑beaver board, ↑ …

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  • 13Wall — A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. Most commonly, a wall delineates a building and supports its superstructure, separates space in buildings into rooms, or protects or delineates a space in the open… …

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  • 14wall — [[t]wɔ͟ːl[/t]] ♦ walls, walling, walled 1) N COUNT A wall is one of the vertical sides of a building or room. Kathryn leaned against the wall of the church... The bedroom walls would be papered with chintz... She checked the wall clock. Derived… …

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  • 15dry masonry — noun masonry without mortar • Hypernyms: ↑masonry • Hyponyms: ↑dry wall, ↑dry stone wall …

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  • 16Dry rot treatment — refers to the techniques used to eliminate dry rot fungus and alleviate the damage done by the fungus to human built wooden structures. The commonly held view of an outbreak of the dry rot fungus (Serpula lacrymans) within a building is that it… …

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  • 17dry wall — dry′ wall n. 1) bui Also, dry′wall a) an interior wall made of a prefabricated dry material b) a material, as wallboard or plasterboard, used for such a wall 2) bui a masonry or stone wall laid up without mortar • Etymology: 1820–30 dry′ wall , v …

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  • 18STONE —    The Neolithic era of Prehistoric architecture has traditionally been called the Stone Age because of the appearance of stone tools and other implements, as well as large scale stone constructions. The earliest masonry structures are Neolithic… …

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  • 19dry wall — Building Trades. 1. Also, drywall. a. an interior wall or partition finished in a dry material, usually in the form of prefabricated sheets or panels nailed to studs, as distinguished from one that is plastered. b. a material, as wallboard or… …

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  • 20Dry Dock Complex (Detroit, Michigan) — Dry Dock Engine Works Detroit Dry Dock Company Complex U.S. National Register of Historic Places …

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