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Definition of Quarrymen
1. quarryman [n] - See also: quarryman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarrymen
Literary usage of Quarrymen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"In exposed places, where the wind has had free access, the refuse heaps are as
the quarrymen left them. No fragments of rocks were seen that would make a ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"These blocks are known to quarrymen as cat faces. This formation exists in small
blocks between all good working blocks, as well as sometimes in the Flo. 4. ..."
3. Report by Industrial Commission of Ohio, Dept. of Investigation and Statistics (1916)
"quarrymen, AMHERST. Early in April, 1916, the men employed in the Amherst quarries
of the Cleveland Stone Company and of the Ohio ..."
4. History of the Granite Industry of New England by Arthur Wellington Brayley (1913)
"The daily wages of stonecutters and quarrymen from 1836 to 1883 were as ...
The rates of wages in 1902 were somewhat lower for stone quarrymen than for all ..."
5. Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes: Report to Sir Arthur Bass, M.P. by Leone Levi (1885)
"THE wages of quarrymen are 30s. ; boring, 21s.; stone dressers, 32s.; stone
cutters, 21s. In Manchester the wages of ..."
6. The Law of Sales of Personal Property by Francis Marion Burdick (1901)
"The Rule applies to quarrymen and Seed-growers. — The same doctrine applies to
a quarryman who sells granite blocks to a contractor for use in the ..."
7. The Prayer-meeting, and Its History: As Identified with the Life and Power by J B Johnston (1870)
"Incidents among quarrymen, Ireland—Among quarrymen, Wales—Remarkable Prayer-meetings
on a Mountain—Incidents illustrating the Importance of Concerted ..."
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