ashlar

English

Alternative forms

• ashler

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French esselier, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin axilla, diminutive of axis (“board, plank”).

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.
   • 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

Translations

a large square stone

• Bulgarian: дя́лан ка́мък m (djálan kámǎk)
• Catalan: carreu (ca) m
• Finnish: harkkokivi
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• Galician: perpiaño m
• Irish: eisléir f
• Portuguese: cantaria (pt) f
• Spanish: sillar (es)

masonry making use of such blocks

• Catalan: carreuada f
• Dutch: blok natuursteen, parement
• 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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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Bulgarian: (облицовка от) дялан камък ((oblicovka ot) djalan kamǎk)
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Anagrams

• Sharla, lahars