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
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A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.
- A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
- An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
- An object of search or pursuit.
fe’l verb
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To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.
- To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
- To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.