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What (who) is quarry - definition
PLACE FROM WHICH DIMENSION STONE, ROCK, CONSTRUCTION AGGREGATE ETC. HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FROM THE GROUND
Quarrying; Quarry and Quarrying; Stone quarry; Quarried; Quarrys; Quarryman; Marble quarry; Quary; Quarries; Stone pit; Quarry process; Super quarry; Superquarry; Rock quarry; Rock quarries; Stone quarries
![[[Matera]] quarry in [[Basilicata]], Italy](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cava Matera Inerti.png?width=200 "[[Matera]] quarry in [[Basilicata]], Italy")
.jpg?width=200 "Donnerkuhle Quarry, near Hagen, Germany")
![A [[Portland stone]] quarry on the [[Isle of Portland]], England](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PortlandQuarry.jpg?width=200 "A [[Portland stone]] quarry on the [[Isle of Portland]], England")
![Prospect Quarry gap]] in [[Sydney]], Australia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prospect Quarry.jpg?width=200 "Prospect Quarry gap]] in [[Sydney]], Australia")
![An abandoned [[construction aggregate]] quarry near [[Adelaide]], South Australia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stone quarry adelaide.JPG?width=200 "An abandoned [[construction aggregate]] quarry near [[Adelaide]], South Australia")
Quarry
·adj Quadrate; square.
II. Quarry ·noun A heap of game killed.
III. Quarry ·noun ·same·as 1st Quarrel.
IV. Quarry ·vi To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
V. Quarry ·vt To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
VI. Quarry ·noun A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
VII. Quarry ·noun The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
VIII. Quarry ·noun A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. ·see 5th Mine (a).
quarry
n.
1.
Stone-pit, stone-bed.
2.
Prey (especially that of the hunting falcon), game, object of the chase.
3.
Pane of glass.
quarry
(quarries, quarrying, quarried)
1.
A quarry is an area that is dug out from a piece of land or the side of a mountain in order to get stone or minerals.
...an old limestone quarry.
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2.
When stone or minerals are quarried or when an area is quarried for them, they are removed from the area by digging, drilling, or using explosives.
The large limestone caves are also quarried for cement.
...locally quarried stone.
VERB: be V-ed, V-ed
• quarrying
Farming, quarrying and other local industries have declined.
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3.
A person's or animal's quarry is the person or animal that they are hunting.
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Wikipedia
Quarry
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to reduce their environmental impact.
The word quarry can also include the underground quarrying for stone, such as Bath stone.
Examples of use of quarry
1. North of Baqouba, gunmen attacked a stone quarry, killing the guard and kidnapping the quarry owner‘s son, police said.
2. Derbyshire quarry Status of threat Inquiry awaited.
3. Romney‘s political quarry for the day was Arizona Sen.
4. More specimens may await discovery in the quarry.
5. Then his quarry appeared: a dancing white lady spider.