quarry

/ˈkwɒɹi/

Misollar

  • This is an old rock quarry.
  • I have no quarry with you.
  • Yanni's apartment overlooks a quarry.
  • What do they mine in this quarry?
  • He works in the quarry, breaking up rocks.
  • The old quarry is now a popular swimming hole.

ot noun

  1. A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate. Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.
  2. A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
  3. An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
  4. An object of search or pursuit.

fe’l verb

  1. To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching. They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.
  2. To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
  3. To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.

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