quarryman
nounUS /ˈkwɔɹ.i.mən/
Etymology From quarry + -man.
1
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 Llangattock:
- 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: