Meanings
plural quarrymen
- A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).
Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 258, about Llangattock1 more example
He then described how a quarryman had bought the mineral rights of an estate at Melkridge, on the route of the Roman Wall, for twenty-one years.
1981, John Sheail, Rural Conservation in Inter-war Britain
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
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quarryman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quarryman
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