quarryman

/ˈkwɔɹ.i.mən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English

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noun

"Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo."
"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."

From quarry + -man.

quarrymen (plural)

ledgeman

Questions

How do you pronounce quarryman?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkwɔɹ.i.mən/.

What does quarryman mean?

A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).

Where does quarryman come from?

From quarry + -man.

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