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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1496-1676
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Quar(r)eo(u)r, -io(u)r, Quer(r)eo(u)r, -iour, n. Also: quar(r)eur, -ioure, -your, -iur, quarȝeor, quharȝeour, qwarior, qwereour. [Late ME and e.m.E. qwariour (c1400), quarriour (1424, 1590), med. L. (Scot.) quarrior (c1330). Cf. also Quar(r)ier and Quar(r)our (and Quarreller n.).] A quarrier, quarryman. Also attrib.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxiii 212.
& quereouris gadryt sone Stanis to wyne 1496 Treasurer's Accounts I 295; etc.
To Johne quareour, for correkking of gunstanis 1500 Acts Lords of Council II 416.
For the … maisterfull stopping … of our soverane lordis quarreouris and servituris 1501 Treasurer's Accounts II 88; etc.
To the quareouris in Falkland, four owkis wage 1506 Rentale Dunkeld. 82.
John Querreour [his fee from the day of entry] 1511 Treasurer's Accounts IV 278.
Qwereouris 1513 Rentale Dunkeld. 284.
James Querreor 1530 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 49.
Woun be the quareouris thair xxiiii peis for muildry [etc.] 1539 Ib. 248.
To ane servitour oursear of the werkmen and quarreouris and tailliand stuf 1540 Reg. Privy S. II 548/2.
Sande Quareour 1546 Treasurer's Accounts VIII 459.
Quarreours 1559 Master of Works Accounts I 298.
To Jhone Penne quareor 1576 Glasgow B. Rec. I 459.
Quareouris 1587 Carmichael Etym. 3.
Lapicida, a maison or quareor 1592 Sc. Ant. VI 167.
Johnne Gib, quarreur 1627 Glasgow B. Rec. I 362.
Quareour 1633 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 370.
To Johne Thomsone maissoune and quarreor at Craigber for wining and hewing of … squar parpin stones(b) 1511–12 Edinb. B. Rec. I 136.
William Rynde … hes sett the qwerrell of Railstoun till Robert Cvnynghame quariour 1512 Treasurer's Accounts IV 460.
To the quaryour of Letht at makis stans to the small pecis in the bark 1512 Rentale Dunkeld. 125.
John Quharȝeour 1512 Ib. 126.
John Quarȝeor 1532 Master of Works Accounts I 102; etc.
To four quaryouris rysand the said calsay and stanis 1549–50 Treasurer's Accounts IX 365.
David Dog, quarioure 1551 Reg. Privy S. IV 188/1.
All stanis quhilkis wer won furth of the querrell and crag of the said castell be the quaryouris warkand thairat 1554 Edinb. B. Rec. II 193.
The querriouris … oblist thame nocht to wirk on the Common Mvre 1555–6 Ib. 326.
Wrocht on the quariors pikis, irne waigis 1560–1 Edinb. Old Acc. II 118.
Quariuris 1590–1 Sc. Ant. VIII 114.
Qwarior 1595 Edinb. B. Rec. V 133.
Be the querriouris and stayne ledares 1609 Glasgow Trades House 17.
To the quarioris for the stanis 1613–14 Ayr B. Acc. 58.
Querriour 1622 Criminal Trials III 516.
That he being ane querriour of his craft hes wrocht thir dyuerse yeiris bygane … be wynning of stanes furth of the querrell 1622 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 147.
Querriouris 1639 Ib. MS XXIX 28b-29.
Smythis querriouris borrowmen 1640 Fam. Innes 166.
Quariour 1676 Kirkcaldy B. Rec. MS 24 April.
To hyre measons quarriours and barrow menattrib. 1557–85 Reg. Dunferm. 491.
Carta … de quariour landis
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