stonecutting
noun
stonecutting is a noun meaning “The hewing or dressing of stone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-O-N-E-C-U-T-T-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of stonecutting is stonecuttings.
What does stonecutting mean?
noun
- 1
The hewing or dressing of stone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of stonecutting
- stonecuttings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stonecutting?
Stonecutting appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does stonecutting come from?
From stone + cutting.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).