[f. QUARRY sb.2] One employed in quarrying; one who works in a quarry.
1611. Cotgr., Quarrieur, a Quartier, or Quarrey-man.
a. 1728. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Fossils (1729), II. 53 (J.). Thomas Wells, the Quarry-Man, assured me [it] was flat, cover’d with Scales, and above three Foot long.
1806. A. Duncan, Nelson, 284. His father, a quarryman,… lived at Rusty Anchor.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., IV. App. B (ed. 2), 570. In Guernsey, six hundred and fifty-three were quarry men.
1885. Manch. Exam., 28 May, 5/2. The whole Welsh people, from the aristocracy down to the collier and quarryman, are agreed.
