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QUARRIER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quarrier mean?
• QUARRIER (noun)
The noun QUARRIER has 1 sense:
1. a man who works in a quarry
Familiarity information: QUARRIER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who works in a quarry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
quarrier; quarryman
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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