quarriers

Gourlay's "quarriers" -- as the quarry horses had been named -- came through the town last week-end.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

Toward dusk the reddish ants, which may be termed quarriers, gave up work, and this was the signal for the workers below to return home.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

In the height of construction, in 1286, the workforce was "546 general labourers... 115 quarriers, 30 blacksmiths, 22 carpenters and 227 stonemasons."

Men of Harlech by Charlotte Church de Brantigny........................ 2008

In the height of construction, in 1286, the workforce was "546 general labourers... 115 quarriers, 30 blacksmiths, 22 carpenters and 227 stonemasons."

Archive 2008-01-06 de Brantigny........................ 2008

The quarriers came down the stump pushing the laborers, rather rudely as I thought, out of their way; and then forming in what might be called “light skirmishing order,” they marched to the lower entrance of the town, meeting as they went the column of workers going up to the stump.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

They began as fur traders, cord-wainers, salters and smokers of bacon, went on into glassmaking, became selectmen, builders of tanneries, quarriers of marble.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

The tool-marks of the tomb-quarriers should be examined, as they sometimes reveal interesting technical points.

How to Observe in Archaeology Various

There must be quarriers before there can be architects: the hewers of wood and drawers of water are the basis of all civilization.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

Him, it came in his mind to build a house for God's service, of most curious worke: the which that it might be done with greater glory and splendor, he caused artificers to be brought from other regions and forraigne kingdomes, and caused dayly to be abundance of all kinde of workmen present: as masons, carpenters, smiths, barrowmen, and quarriers, with others.

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

Tools were to be found in plenty that the miners and quarriers and builders of old had used; and at such work the dwarves were still very skilled.

The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938