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quarrator

quarrator [cf. LL quadrator ‘stone-cutter’], ~iator [cf. quarriare+CL -tor] , person who works in a quarry, stone-cutter, quarryman, quarrier; b (passing into surname). 1198 quariatoribus qui trahebant petram de quareliis RScacNorm II 310; 1208 quinque quareatoribus ‥ quorum quilibet habet in die iij d. Cl 107a; 1208 quinque ~eatoribus ‥ quorum quilibet habet in die tres den’ Cl 113; 1221 carpentar’, mazonibus, ~eatoribus, carettar’, et hominibus trahentibus ad petrarias nostras Cl 453b; 1261 petra quam quareatores quarere de R. foderunt remansit ibidem pro defectu cariagii Cl 468; 1287 in vadiis diversorum ~atorum quarriancium in diversis quarreris Pipe r. 26; 1300 in stipendiis cementariorum, ~eratorum, fossatorum et aliorum operancium per loca circa muros facta placeam reparanda [sic] Pipe 145 r. 22; tribus ~iatoribus quolibet capiente per diem iij d. Ac. Linlithgow lxiv; 1319 eodem modo mand’ est vic’ Ebor’ de quinquaginta cementariis quorum quatuor sint ~atores RScot I 196a; 1371 in potu dato ~atoribus ibidem ‥ . et in potu dato cariantibus lapides Fabr. York 7.  b 1208 Osb’ quareatori qui habet in die vj d. Cl 107a; 1337 Reginaldo ~eatori capienti per septimanam ij s. Cal. Scot. III 358.

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