ashlar

English

Alternative forms

• ashler

Etymology

From Middle English assheler, acheler, etc., from Old French esselier (“traverse beam”), diminutive of ais (“plank”) from Latin axis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæʃlə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæʃlɚ/

Noun

ashlar (countable and uncountable, plural ashlars)

1. (architecture) A large cuboid stone; masonry making use of such stone blocks.
   • 1970, Rosemary Sutcliff, The Witch`s Brat (Red Fox 1990), p.83:

     And from the choir itself, where the big hoist was working, came the shouts of the men sweating at the great wheel that swung the cut stones skyward, and the men high overhead on the hurdle-walks, waiting to receive the swinging ashlars and guide them into place.

   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001), page 108:

     Even as I babbled, Jock's massy frame filled the doorway, his ill-hewn ashlar head weaving from side to side, eyes blinking at the light.

2. A hurling stone used in warfare.

Derived terms

• ashlaring
• bastard ashlar

Translations

a large square stone

• Bulgarian: дя́лан ка́мък m (djálan kámǎk)
• Catalan: carreu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方石 (zh)

• Danish: kvadersten (da) c
• Finnish: harkkokivi
• Galician: perpiaño m
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• Irish: eisléir f
• Portuguese: cantaria (pt) f
• Spanish: sillar (es)
• Swedish: kvadersten (sv) c

masonry making use of such blocks

• Catalan: carreuada f
• Dutch: blok natuursteen, parement (nl)
• Finnish: harkkokivimuuraus
• French: pierre de taille (fr) f
• German: Quaderstein (de), Werkstein
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• Irish: eisléireacht f
• Italian: pietra da taglio, pietra squadrata, concio (it) m
• Occitan: pèira de talha f
• Polish: licówka kamienna nieregularna, mur ciosowy
• Russian: белый камень m (belyj kamenʹ)

a hurling stone used in warfare

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• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} (облицовка от) дялан камък ((oblicovka ot) djalan kamǎk)
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Anagrams

• Sharla, lahars