dry-stone wall

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   a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar

   Synonymsdry wall

   Broaderstone walldry masonry

Questions about dry-stone wall

What does dry-stone wall mean?

dry-stone wall means "a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar".

What is another word for dry-stone wall?

Close synonyms include dry wall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dry-stone wall a common word?

dry-stone wall is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.