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quarryman

noun

  1. occupation
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Pronunciation: /ˈkwɔɹ.i.mən/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English quarry English -man English quarryman From quarry + -man.

  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.

    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.