interlapidate
To fit in between each other like stones in a building.
Verb
- To fit in between each other like stones in a building.
- Combinations of the mechanics and lower craftsmen…interlapidated and cemented as they all are, each in the club of his own trade. - 1814 November 2nd, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Justice Fletcher, in Essays on...
Origin
From inter- + Latin lapid- (“stone”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), after interfoliate.