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QUARRIER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who works in a quarry

Synonyms:

quarrier; quarryman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("quarrier" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quarrier"):

breaker; ledgeman (a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone)

cutter; stonecutter (someone who cuts or carves stone)

Derivation:

quarry (extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry)

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