mason:
(plural: ‘masons‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person who builds structures with stone or bricks, ‘stonemason‘, ‘brickmason’, etc.;
a skilled stonecutter — a person who is skilled at shaping stone,
a brickmason at work
When he wanted to build a house, Matthew hired an experienced mason and a carpenter, and got the work done in time.
Like a stonemason or a brickmason, also called a ‘bricklayer’, a block-mason, who does the building work with blocks of concrete, also earns $ 40000 to 60000 per annum, and in some places the earning may reach $ 80000, depending on the experience and skill of the blockmason and the intricacies of the job.
In the past, stonemasons learned their skills from senior masons and became stonemasons themselves after years of toiling, but these days there are vocational courses that train stonemasons in a couple of years.
