quarryman
- noun
- /ˈkwɔriˌmæn/
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cantero
- The quarryman's trial forced the Vizier to launch a cleanup operation.
Examples
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The quarryman is dragged to the back of the tomb where the gang broke in.
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Within the walls of the great Temple of Karnak, Amenpanufer the quarryman is being questioned.
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Amenpanufer, a quarryman with a young family, is one of the gang.
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The poor quarryman would have no tomb and no hope of an afterlife.
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The quarryman imagines he has bought himself immunity from prosecution.
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When the quarryman's mansion turned hotel to a few select city families, he fixed the habit of returning every year, though Mama protested, bemoaning the distinct lack of variety in a landscape of spruce and pine.
Fiction book (2000) -
Two days after Pawero sent his incendiary letter to the Vizier, the high court gathers in the Temple of Karnak for the trial of the quarryman, Amenpanufer.
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The quarryman skillfully extracted stone from the mountainside every day.
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After working as a quarryman for years, he became an expert at identifying quality slate.
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The quarryman used his tools to carefully cut the large blocks of granite.
Synonyms
A person who digs and takes stone from the ground
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Quarryman comes from quarry ('a place where people dig or cut stone') and man, so it means a worker who cuts or removes large blocks of rock from a quarry.
