quarryman

English

Etymology

From quarry +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkwɔɹ.i.mən/
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Noun

quarryman (plural quarrymen)

  1. A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).
    Hypernym: quarrier
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 258, about Llangattock:
      Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo.
    • 1981, John Sheail, Rural Conservation in Inter-war Britain:
      He then described how a quarryman had bought the mineral rights of an estate at Melkridge, on the route of the Roman Wall, for twenty-one years.
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