quarryman

[kwawr-ee-muhn, kwor-]

noun

plural

quarrymen 

1. a person who quarries quarry stone; quarrier.

quarryman

/ ˈkwɒrɪmən /

noun

1. a man who works in or manages a quarry

Word History and Origins

Origin of quarryman¹

First recorded in 1605–15; quarry ¹ + -man

Example Sentences

The town, with its rows of old quarrymen's terraced cottages, grew around the development of slate quarrying during the 19th Century.

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"Ordinary people - from the quarrymen of north Wales to the coal miners in south Wales to the agricultural labourers and farmers in mid Wales," said Elgan Philip Davies, a historian and former student in Aberystwyth.

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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.

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An old quarryman came to talk to us.

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The nonprofit then changed the locks on the doors of the quarryman’s museum.

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