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Order III. MINING AND QUARRYING OCCUPATIONS
Code 072: Stone Miners, Quarriers

scabbler, scappler, scapler, scrabbler, scrapler, scrappier, block scabbier, block scappler, block scrappler ; banker hand, block chopper, dimension quarry man, squarer

roughly shapes, dresses or squares up stone into block with scabbling or spalling hammer; (scabbling hammer has square faces and weighs about 18-22 lbs., or sometimes one square face and one pick face); sometimes done by hand driller or quarry mason (575) q.v.

A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.