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Definition of Mortarless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mortarless
Literary usage of Mortarless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Australian Ex Libris Society (1890)
"As well might a visitor to one of these abbeys, taking up a mortarless stone
fallen from the walls, instance it as a proof that the monks originally had ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"There were the same zigzag patterns, and the mortarless walls of small hewn stones.
Shortly before, when hunting in the mountains to the west of ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1800)
"A wall four fe.et thick, and six in height.. was turned topsy-turvy, and in a
manner reduced to powder, near mortarless old walls in which not a stone was ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"The shivering candlelight falls with unequal rays upon the formal tiers ; it
flashes coldly upon the grinning teeth, penetrates the mortarless crannies of ..."
5. The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century by Henry Grey Graham (1899)
"... made of parcels of mortarless stones huddled together; or, worse still, in
the immemorial bee-huts of the Hebrides, with their green turf roofs, ..."
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