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dry-stone wall

NOUN
  1. a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar

How To Use dry-stone wall In A Sentence

  • We lay buried to the head in bracken that filled one side of the byre, and keeked through the plenteous holes in the dry-stone wall at the passing army. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • I assume that we'll be going in, but instead he crosses towards the sea loch, and there below the road, poking out of an old dry-stone wall, is a cluster of chanterelles.
  • The lane squeezes tight between dry-stone walls, big green views billow away to the north and there are bijou meadows soaked with buttercups as tall as daffodils.
  • The works will include restoration of dry-stone walling; tree planting; building of stiles; regeneration of woodland and turning a disused quarry into an amenity area.
  • The area grew and prospered during the Industrial Revolution, but it's now an oasis of green calm, where canals and rivers meander through hills dotted with sheep and dry-stone walls.
  • Pinks bring quality to dry-stone walls and rockeries. Times, Sunday Times
  • The old actor could just as easily be any European but he is firmly located in the west of Ireland, with its distinctive dry-stone walls and vernacular shebeens in the middle distance.
  • The volunteers include people from a wide range of ages and backgrounds keen to learn new skills in dry-stone walling, footpath construction and habitat management.
  • The stoat scampers along the dry-stone wall, lightly cresting the lichen-covered coping stones. Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
  • Rectangular in plan, 4.47 m. long by 1.82 m wide, it is constructed in the usual fashion with vertical slabs infilled with dry-stone walling.
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