What is "quarrier"

Usage examples of "quarrier".

The quarrier backed hurriedly out of the way until the debris stopped falling.

It climbed off the field-minder and perched itself on the tailboard of the quarrier, next to the radio operator.

Every quarrier in the Apuan Alps made the hour-long descent to his village, there to await word of the fate of his companion.

The quarrier raised its scoop above its cab like a great mailed fist, and brought it squarely down against the side of the station.

Doing as directed, the quarrier retracted its scoop and waved an immense grab in the air.

It climbed off the minder and perched itself on the tailboard of the quarrier, next to the operator.

Switching on the infra-red, they began slowly to climb in single file, the bulldozer going first, the minder cumbrously following, then the quarrier with the operator and the penner aboard, and the two tractors bringing up the rear.

Doing as directed, the quarrier retracted its scoop and heaved an immense grab in the air.

Switching on the infra-red, they began slowly to climb in single file,through the dark, the bulldozer going first, the field-minder cumbrously following, then the quarrier with the operator and the penner aboard, and the tractors bringing up the rear.

Soon the mountain villages began to appear, Codena, Miseglia, Bedizzano, each cluster pouring out its male population, feeding rivulets of quarriers into the human stream flowing upward.

Barrel grasped him by the arm, led him to the area where water-soaked wooden pegs had been driven into a V-shaped incision and, in the natural course of swelling, had forced an opening in the solid marble cliff which the quarriers were now attacking with levers and sledge hammers, driving the pegs deeper to dislodge the marble from its bed.

At a chanting call from the foreman, the quarriers who were widening a fault in the stratified marble cliffs above came down to a wooden shed for their dinner.

Michelangelo stood behind the curtained doors listening to the murmur grow in intensity as the quarriers continued to jam into the square.

Where before he had scoured the countryside seeking a figure, or face, a husky arm or elongated sunburnt throat for a statue or painting, now he searched for stonemasons, quarriers from Maiano and Prato, carpenters, brickmakers, mechanics, to stem a war.

He ordered his carters to bring in Arno sand and sacks of cement, sent out runners to collect the crews of masons and quarriers, at dusk set them to rebuilding the tower.