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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 guild
- Stonemasons formed Europe's earliest organized trade unions
- the handshake
- Secret grips proved you trained at a real lodge
- job hopping
- Free masons could travel between towns for work
- jar fame
- Mason jar named for inventor John Mason, 1858
- sound idea
- The Dixon-Mason line split a young nation
mason-dixon line — 1763-1767 survey between maryland and pennsylvania that became the symbolic boundary between north and south
perry mason — fictional defense attorney created by erle stanley gardner, appeared in 82 novels starting 1933
freemasons — fraternal organization with roots in medieval stonemasons, established lodges worldwide since the 1600s