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A man who works in a quarry
Answer for the clue "A man who works in a quarry ", 9 letters:
quarryman
Word definitions for quarryman in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from quarry (n.2) + man (n.). Related: Quarrymen .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a man who works in a quarry [syn: quarrier ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).
Usage examples of quarryman.
The banners of Bridgewater, of Shepton Mallet, and of Nether Stowey swept past us, with that of the fishers of Clovelly and the quarrymen of the Blackdowns.
For the nonce I am Nisbet the quarryman, with far too many columns to raise and far too much work on order.
Fuller or Lord Quarryman, whose estates abutted on Worsted Skeynes, and there was grave and imminent danger of its going back, it was promptly shot and stuffed, that it might not be lost to posterity.
He began to follow songs of quarrymen and stonecutters wrought in a tongue modern Sacoridians would not recognize.
By July, he was working in the quarries-he was often the signalman, but his father apprenticed him to the other quarrymen: the channel bar drillers, the derrickman, the dynamiters.
In June, 1878, the South Wales Daily News recorded a superstition of the quarrymen at Penrhyn, where some thousands of men refused to work on Ascension Day.
The quarrymen shared their vegetable soup, boiled meat, bread, cheese and wine with Michelangelo, then lay down for an hour's sleep.