Sekirov Dictionary

quarry

UK /ˈkwɒɹ.i/US /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/

noun 5
verb 3
forms 3

noun5

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A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
- Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.
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An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
- Nofi Raranta, 37, the town's main clove dealer, is also the top hunter, employing about a hundred men who comb the surrounding forests for quarry. — 2017
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An object of search or pursuit.
- Meanwhile his Ladie, which this outrage saw, / Whilest they together for the quarrey stroue, / Into the couert did her selfe withdrw, / And closely hid her selfe within the groue. — 1596
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A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
- The boyes playing at stooleball, by chaunce broke a quarry of the glasse, whereupon he complayned to the Towneship, and either had, or did his utmost to haue the poor boy whipt, […] — 1615
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(no longer used) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
- Quarry, among hunters, is sometimes used for part of the viscera of the beast taken; given by way of reward to the hounds. — 1728

verb3

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To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
- Today the extractive industry utilizes sand and gravel reserves and quarries stone in Wingdale. — 2008
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(figurative) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
- They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

forms

quarried · quarrying · quarries

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