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quarrier

quarrier

9.6
A person who digs and takes stone from the ground
  • noun
  • /ˈkwɔːriər/
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  • Many quarriers use heavy machinery to lift large blocks of stone from the earth.

Examples

  • The quarrier skillfully extracted granite from the hillside for local construction.

  • Like most of the quarriers.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Occasionally, we would see stone blocks lying in the woods, fluted almost like column drums: discarded long ago by quarriers who'd found cracks or crumbling veins of unwanted stone.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • In ancient times, a quarrier would work tirelessly to supply stone for grand buildings.

Synonyms

quarryman
vsquarrier
8.1

A person who removes stone from a quarry

is gender neutral and means any person who removes stone from an open pit

Surface Forms

quarrier singular
quarriers plural

Morphology

quarrier = quarry (transparent) = quarry + er

The word is a regular agent noun built from 'quarry' + '-er', so the meaning is directly recoverable.

Etymology

Quarrier comes from an old root quadra that means 'square' and gave us quarry, a place where people cut stone. So a quarrier is the worker who cuts and shapes stone, often into 'square' blocks, which explains the word's meaning today.