Quarry
['kwɒrɪ] or ['kwɔri]
Definition
(verb.) extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry; 'quarry marble'.
Checker: Rene--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Same as 1st Quarrel.
(a.) Quadrate; square.
(n.) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
(n.) A heap of game killed.
(n.) The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
(v. i.) To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
(n.) 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).
(v. t.) To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
Checker: Stella
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Stone-pit, stone-bed.[2]. Prey (especially that of the hunting falcon), game, object of the chase.
Checker: Vernon
Definition
n. the entrails of the game given to the dogs after the chase: the object of the chase: the game a hawk is pursuing or has killed: a heap of dead game.
n. an excavation from which stone is taken for building &c. by cutting blasting &c.—v.t. to dig from a quarry:—pa.t. and pa.p. quarr′ied.—adj. Quarr′iable capable of being quarried.—ns. Quarr′ier Quarr′y-man a man who works in a quarry.—adj. Quarr′y-faced rough-faced.—ns. Quarr′ying-machine′ a rock-drill; Quarr′y-wa′ter the water contained in the pores of stone while unquarried or newly quarried before its evaporation.
n. a small square tile.—adj. Quarr′ied paved with such.
Editor: Susanna
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being in a quarry and seeing the workmen busy, denotes that you will advance by hard labor. An idle quarry, signifies failure, disappointment, and often death.
Checker: Mattie
Examples
- They were more mobile than his troops, but they missed their quarry in the darkness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Hard by was a small stone-quarry. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high-grade ore. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A good stone quarry in the neighbourhood of London would afford a considerable rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Being a hunter, he was obliged to follow the migrations of his ordinary quarry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In a little while we had shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Bit by bit other fragments of this skull were hunted out from the quarry heaps until most of it could be pieced together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I should think from the color of his clothes that he is working in the quarries. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was desired to divide large blocks generally at the quarries to facilitate transportation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The best known quarries are those of New England. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In a short time the two youths had become inseparable friends, experimenting together, and taking walks to the mines and quarries in the neighborhood of Penzance in search of minerals for study. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They dispossessed _Homo Neanderthalensis_ from his caverns and his stone quarries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Perhaps quarrying would be a better term than mining in this case, as Edison's plan was to approach the rock and tear it down bodily. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is commonly found in reefs or veins among quartz, and in alluvial deposits; it is separated, in the former case, by quarrying, crushing, washing and treatment with mercury. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But slight as had been the discoveries and experiments referred to, they were the mine from which the inventions of subsequent times were quarried. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The immense veins of magnetic ore lie close to the surface and are mined or quarried by working along a series of benches or ledges. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They quarried the clay, manipulated it, constructed and decorated the ware, burned it in a rude furnace and wore it out in a hundred uses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is abundant in America and is largely quarried in the United States for building purposes, especially in New England. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Granite quarried anywhere in which felspar predominates is not well adapted for buildings, as it cracks and crumbles down in a few years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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