quarrymann.
/ˈkwɒrɪmən/, U.S. /ˈkwɔrimən/ A person (esp. a man) who works in a quarry; one who quarries stone, etc. Cf. quarrier n.1
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > quarrier > [noun]
quarrel man1377
quarrier1399
quarryman1442
quar-man1606
stone-getter1688
stone-drawer1703
1442 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 385 (MED) The quarrey men of kent.
1594 in J. C. Cox Churchwardens' Accts. (1913) vi. 84 Quarrey man of Eversden.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Quarrieur, a Quarrier, or Quarrey-man.
1728 J. Woodward Catal. Addit. Eng. Native Fossils 53 The Mass off which this was Broke, Thomas Wells, the Quarry-Man assured me was flat.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §108 The quarry-men..cross-cut the large flats, which are laid bare.
1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 284 His father, a quarryman,..lived at Rusty Anchor.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands i. vi. 129 Then the quarry men gradually drop away, and lastly the fishermen give up their occupation.
1922 S. Anderson Winesburg Ohio 146 The house had been built by Seth's grandfather, a stone quarryman.
1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. i. 5 Middle Chalk contains few flints and is therefore most sought after by quarry-men.
2003 B. Bryson Short Hist. Nearly Everything (2004) vi. 117 Mantell continued hunting for fossils..and purchasing others from quarrymen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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