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   quarrier
         n 1: a man who works in a quarry [syn: {quarryman}, {quarrier}]

English Dictionary: querier by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
querier
n
  1. someone who asks a question [syn: inquirer, enquirer, questioner, querier, asker]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quarrier \Quar"ri*er\, n.
      A worker in a stone quarry.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Queer \Queer\, a. [Compar. {Queerer}; superl. {Queerest}.] [G.
      quer cross, oblique, athwart (cf. querkopf a queer fellow),
      {OHG}. twer, twerh, dwerah; akin to D. dvars, AS,
      [thorn]weorh thwart, bent, twisted, Icel. [thorn]verr thwart,
      transverse, Goth. [thorn]wa[8d]rhs angry, and perh. to L.
      torqyere to twist, and E. through. Cf. {Torture}, {Through},
      {Thwart}, a.]
      1. At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in
            some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular;
            strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act. [bd] A queer
            look.[b8] --W. Irving.
  
      2. Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer
            transaction. [Colloq.]
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