quarryman

American  

[kwawr-ee-muhn, kwor-] / ˈkwɔr i mən, ˈkwɒr- /

noun

plural

quarrymen

1. a person who quarries quarry stone; quarrier.

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quarryman British  

/ ˈkwɒrɪmən /

noun

1. a man who works in or manages a quarry

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Etymology

Origin of quarryman

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.

From BBC

"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.

From BBC

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 Literature

His father and grandfather had both been quarrymen here.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times