quarryman
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
quarryman (plural quarrymen)
- A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).
- 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.