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quarryman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkwɔɹ.i.mən/ (US)
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Etymology

From quarry + -man.

Meanings

1. A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).
   • Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 258, about Llangattock:
   • 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. 1981, John Sheail, Rural Conservation in Inter-war Britain:

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Hypernyms

quarrier