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Quarry   /kwˈɔri/   Listen
Quarry

noun
1.
A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence.  Synonyms: fair game, prey, target.  "Everyone was fair game" , "The target of a manhunt"
2.
A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.  Synonyms: pit, stone pit.
3.
Animal hunted or caught for food.  Synonym: prey.
verb
(past & past part. quarried; pres. part. quarrying)
1.
Extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry.



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"Quarry" Quotes from Famous Books



... quarry among the western hills, on a bleak January day not long before his death, that I met Snarley Bob and heard him discourse of the everlasting stars. The quarry was the place in which to find Snarley most at his ease. In the little room of his cottage he could hardly ...
— Mad Shepherds - and Other Human Studies • L. P. Jacks
... passed; a whole hour went by, and still there was no sign of our intended victim. Had he left the house by the front? I almost hoped he had. Yet, should he escape us this time, I knew that now Jose had started his quarry he would run it ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... is our quarry, Glendinning," said Claverhouse, drawing rein as they approached a small cottage, near to which a man was seen ...
— Hunted and Harried • R.M. Ballantyne
... Black Bruin alongside the quarry and, within striking distance, his heavy paw went up, but at that moment the wood pussy arched his back and delivered his own best defense full in the ...
— Black Bruin - The Biography of a Bear • Clarence Hawkes
... woodland and a well-known quarry, where, for a wonder, the derrick was not creaking and not a single hammer was clinking at the stone wedges, we did not see any one hoeing in the fields, as we had seen so many on the white rose road, the other side of the hills. Presently we met two or three people walking sedately, clad in their ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett


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