▪ 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.
| α c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxiii. (Seven Sleepers) 212 Quereouris gadryt sone stanis to wyne. c 1400 Destr. Troy 1531 Masons full mony;..qwariours qweme. 1424 E.E. Wills 59 Paied to Fairchild, quarriour, xiijs. and iiijd. for freestone. 1483 Cath. Angl. 296/2 A Qvaryour, lapidicius. 1590 Serpent of Devis. C iij, There was found by quarriours..a rich tombe of stone. |
| β c 1440 Promp. Parv. 419/1 Quaryere, lapidicidius. 1500–18 Acc. Louth Steeple in Archæologia X. 71 William Bennet, quarryer. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 531 A certaine number of workmen, as Masons and Quarriers. 1673 Ray Journ. Low C. 57 Pillars and Galleries made by Quarriers. 1811 Pinkerton Petral. I. 498 Where the gypsum once bore a prismatic form, now destroyed by the progress of the quarriers. 1876 T. Hardy Ethelberta xxxi, Everybody in the parish who was not a boatman was a quarrier. |
| fig. 1825 Hone 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.
| c 1550 Document (N.), To cause the groomes to delyver to the groom porter all the remaynes of torches and quarriers. 1581 Styward Mart. Discipl. i. 24 Their quariers and their cressets being light euerie one by it selfe. 1604 Househ. Ord. (1790) 305 Mortores, Torchetts, Torches, Quarrioures. 1659 Torriano, Doppione, a great torch of wax, which in Court is called a Standard, or a quarrier. |