mason

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MA'SON, noun ma'sn. 1. A man whose occupation is to lay bricks and stones, or to construct the walls of buildings, chimneys and the like, which consist of bricks or stones. 2. A member of the fraternity of free masons.
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