The four main spans across the waterway are carried on ashlar piers founded on Memel timber piles.
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Ashlar
/ˈæʃlɚ/
Synonyms for "ashlar" (22 found)
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Translations
15 translations across 10 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- carreuada noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
Dutch
2 entries- blok natuursteen noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
- parement noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
Finnish
1 entries- harkkokivimuuraus noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
French
1 entries- pierre de taille noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
German
2 entries- Quaderstein noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
- Werkstein noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
Irish
1 entries- eisléireacht noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
Italian
3 entries- concio noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
- pietra da taglio noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
- pietra squadrata noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
Occitan
1 entries- pèira de talha noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
Polish
2 entries- licówka kamienna nieregularna noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
- mur ciosowy noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
Russian
1 entries- белый камень noun (well-finished masonry creating an effect similar to well-done wooden flooring)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
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.
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By the Augustan period, however, the old ashlar circuit with its earthen agger was beginning to be dismantled in some places.
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The building, in a plain Tudor Gothic style, has a central door in chamfered ashlar surround.
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