What's the difference between quarrier and quarryman?

Quarrier


Definition:

  • (n.) A worker in a stone quarry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prevalence of silicosis in these open-cast sandstone quarriers is unexpectedly high.
  • (2) Besides their high overall lung cancer risk, miners and quarriers had a very high risk of small cell carcinoma as compared with other economically active men.
  • (3) The work of the Assessment Unit in the Epilepsy Centre, Quarriers Homes, Scotland is described.

Quarryman


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scores of people, including comedian Mark Thomas and wilderness hiker Cameron McNeish, have become joint owners of an acre of land previously owned by Michael Forbes, the quarryman and salmon netsman who has become Trump's most famous and obstinate opponent.
  • (2) A 62-year old quarryman developed distinct, erythematosquamous and keratotic lesions associated with subungual hyperkeratosis and nail detachment on all fingertips within 9 months.
  • (3) Lord Puttnam has emerged as one of 60 co-owners of an acre of land beside the home of Michael Forbes, the quarryman and salmon fisherman who has been under intense pressure from the tycoon to sell his 23-acre property since it sits near the centre of the planned resort.
  • (4) So too is Michael Forbes, the obstinate quarryman who became Trump’s most famous opponent after the property magnate described him as a “disgrace” for refusing to sell to him his “pigsty of a home” which sits in the middle of the Trump estate.

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