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noun

Quarry n. Same as 1st Quarrel. (Obs.)

Quarry n. (pl. quarries)

(a)

A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.

(b)

A heap of game killed.

The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks. "The stone-dead quarry." "The wily quarry shunned the shock."

Quarry 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).

verb

Quarry v. t. (past & past part. quarried; pres. part. quarrying) To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.

Quarry v. i. To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

adjective

Quarry adj. Quadrate; square. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Quarry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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