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Meaning of dry-stone | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

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

not-comparable, usually

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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