dry-stone

English

a dry-stone wall in England

Alternative forms

Etymology

dry + stone

Adjective

dry-stone (not comparable)

  1. (of a wall, bridge, building, etc.) Constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar.

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