A mason. Someone who builds such structures as roads, houses, and bridges out of bricks.
"Listening to them fulminate against tops and bras, Jan thought of the small wooden object called a level that his grandfather, who had been a bricklayer, would routinely set on the surface of a wall as it went up. Under a tiny plate of glass in the middle of the instrument was a drop of water with a bubble in it which, according to its position, would tell whether the bricks were even or not. The Clevis family could serve as a spiritual air bubble. Offer them any idea, and they would provide a perfect indication of whether it was the best of all possible progressive ideas."
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978).
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