quarriour - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Dictionary Entry

quarriǒur n.

Forms	quarriǒur n. Also quario(u)r, -iur, quar(r)eour, -eur, quareiour, -eor, quarour, quarer, -iere, querrour, querure, (N) quharior, wherreour.
Etymology	OF carrier, quarrier, querrier & ML quarrior, var. of quarrarius.

(a) Quarrier, stonecutter; stoneworker; (b) as surname.

(1399) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3514 : Johannem Inggram, quarior.
(1404) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3525 : In fractura lapidum per Robertum Vynter, quareor.
(1404) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3526 : In reparacione et acuacione instrumentorum del qwhariors.
c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.496 : He made seke..for eueryche þat was good devysour, Mason, hewer, or crafty quareour.
(1421-2) in Salzman Building in Engl.498 : As ye wherreours brekes ye saide stones and schapils yaim in ye saidesqwerrels, yt yen ye forsaide Nicholas and his falaws gare of yair cost void ye stanes fro ye wherreours, yt yai be not taride..in yair werke.
(1424) EEWills59/4 : Richard Oxenden haiþ paied to Fairchild, quarriour, xiij s. and iiij d. for freestone.
a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4149 : Aboute hym lefte he no masoun, That stoon coude leye, ne querrour; He hirede hem to make a tour.
(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)419 : Quaryere: Lapidicidius, lapidicida [Win: lapicidius, lapicida].
?a1450(1422) Lydg.SD (McC 182)64/8 : Hit is remembred þat þe same ȝere..was fownden bi quareiours of þe countree a riche towmbe of stone.
c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)1531 : He..The styfe towne to Restore..Gate masons..Qwariours qweme..Mynors of marbull ston.
?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)101a : A Qwariowr: lapicidius [Monson: lapidicius].