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the original man who turned mountains into cathedrals one stubborn block at a time
means a person skilled in building with stone, brick, or similar hard materials by cutting, shaping, and laying them.
from From Old French 'masson' (modern 'maçon'), arriving in English after the Norman Conquest. The deeper root is uncertain — possibly from a Frankish word related to 'making' or 'cutting,' a cousin of words tied to hewing and shaping. Long before the term picked up its secret-handshake associations, it simply meant the worker whose hands knew the heft of a chiseled block.
oldest guildStonemasons formed Europe's earliest organized trade unions
the handshakeSecret grips proved you trained at a real lodge
job hoppingFree masons could travel between towns for work
jar fameMason jar named for inventor John Mason, 1858
sound ideaThe Dixon-Mason line split a young nation