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▪ I. quarrier1|ˈkwɒrɪə(r)|
Forms: α. 5 quarre-, qwari-, qvary-, querrour, Sc. quereour, 5–6 quarriour. β. quaryere, 6 quarryer, 7– quarrier.
[a. OF. quarreour, -ieur, quarrier (mod.F. carrier), agent-n. to quarrer (mod.F. carrer):—L. quadrāre to square (stones): cf. late L. quadrātor, quadrātārius, in same sense, and see quarry n.2]
One who quarries stone; a quarryman.
αc1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxiii. (Seven Sleepers) 212 Quereouris gadryt sone stanis to wyne. c1400Destr. Troy 1531 Masons full mony;..qwariours qweme. 1424E.E. Wills 59 Paied to Fairchild, quarriour, xiijs. and iiijd. for freestone. 1483Cath. Angl. 296/2 A Qvaryour, lapidicius. 1590Serpent of Devis. C iij, There was found by quarriours..a rich tombe of stone.
βc1440Promp. Parv. 419/1 Quaryere, lapidicidius. 1500–18Acc. Louth Steeple in Archæologia X. 71 William Bennet, quarryer. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 531 A certaine number of workmen, as Masons and Quarriers. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 57 Pillars and Galleries made by Quarriers. 1811Pinkerton Petral. I. 498 Where the gypsum once bore a prismatic form, now destroyed by the progress of the quarriers. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta xxxi, Everybody in the parish who was not a boatman was a quarrier.
fig.1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 274 He was the quarrier, and architect, and builder-up of his own greatness.
▪ II. † ˈquarrier2 Obs.
Forms: 6 quarier(e, 6–7 quarrier, (6 -iere, -iour).
[App. an alteration of quarry n.4; see also quarion.]
A large square candle.
c1550Document (N.), To cause the groomes to delyver to the groom porter all the remaynes of torches and quarriers. 1581Styward Mart. Discipl. i. 24 Their quariers and their cressets being light euerie one by it selfe. 1604Househ. Ord. (1790) 305 Mortores, Torchetts, Torches, Quarrioures. 1659Torriano, Doppione, a great torch of wax, which in Court is called a Standard, or a quarrier. |