quarryman
Americannoun
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quarrymen
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noun
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The tireless collecting of retired quarryman Dave Brockhurst, who has spent the last 30 years uncovering fossils from Ashdown Brickworks, was key to the discovery.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
An old quarryman came to talk to us.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
At about 17:30 GMT on 11 March, quarryman William Horsefield spotted a crack in the embankment "only about wide enough to admit a penknife" and alerted a number of local workmen.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2014
The 41-year-old singer-songwriter, raised in Dorset and Somerset, had parents – a quarryman and a stonemason – who were friends with several musicians.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2011
The craftsmen were the master quarryman, the master stone cutter, the master sculptor, the master mortar maker, the master mason, the master carpenter, the master blacksmith, the master roofer, and the master glass maker.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
As machines came, its capacity and ambition were increased, while the knowledge and instinct of the quarrymen were steadily lost.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
But its owner had little time for the quarrymen, and even less for their unions.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2020
For one piece, he collaborated with Brier and sculptor Sharon Fullingim to create a memorial for the quarrymen of southern Indiana, with hopes of placing it somewhere in the Bloomington community.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 23, 2017
In November, 1924, lime quarrymen found a small skull embedded in breccia near the South African town of Taung.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016
Mr. Patterson explained how his father and three hundred other quarrymen went on strike days before the stock market crash in 1929, never to return to work in the pits again.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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