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Definition of "quarry-man" []

  • A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "quarry-man" in a sentence
  • "A quarry-man, seeing a little boy so engaged, looked with that pitying eye which the benevolent assume when viewing the insane."
  • "The shank forms a veritable saw, but with two parallel sets of teeth; and it is so strongly made that it may well be compared, the question of size apart, to the great saw of a quarry-man."
  • "It was getting too near dark to go by the moor tops, so I made off towards a cottage in the next clough, where an old quarry-man lived, called "Jone o'Twilter's.""