quarryman
noun
- occupation
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɔɹ.i.mən/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English quarry English -man English quarryman From quarry + -man.
- 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.”