pitch-faced

English

Adjective

pitch-faced (comparative more pitch-faced, superlative most pitch-faced)

  1. (stone-cutting) Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pitch-faced in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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