Cut stone

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stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.

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ashlar
cement
Cementer
chisel
cold chisel
Quarried

Quarrier
quarry
quarrying
Rustic work
set chisel

They are very thick, and are often plastered and whitewashed and capped with projecting slabs of cut stone.

The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

The pathway in the center of the street was unpaved, but the floors of the arcades were cut stone of various shapes and sizes but all carefully fitted and laid without mortar.

Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

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