Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dry-stone

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English

Syllables: dry--s-tone
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar.

Example Sentences

"dry-stone wall"
"The first part of the book traces the history of dry stone walls from medieval times to the present. The standard form of most walls probably dates from Tudor times but the great era of wall-building in the uplands took place comparatively recently, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."

Etymology

From dry + stone.

Inflected Forms

drystone (alternative) dry stone (alternative)

Phrases

dry-stone dyke

Questions

What does dry-stone mean?: Constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar.
Where does dry-stone come from?: From dry + stone.

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