Quarry

Noun

 * 1) A site for mining stone, limestone or slate.
 * ''Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara

Verb

 * 1)  To obtain (mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
 * ''Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.
 * 1)   To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
 * ''They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.

Synonyms

 * (obtain stone by extraction) mine
 * (extract by search) dig (up)

Derived terms

 * quarrying (noun)

Noun

 * 1) An animal which is hunted, notably mammal or bird.
 * 2) An object of search or pursuit.
 * 3) * ''A US State Department website advertised a reward of up to $1m (£500,000) for the capture of its quarry, who was described as 5ft 11in (180cm) tall, with a pale complexion, "a moustache and a long, heavy beard that is starting to grey". - BBC News website, 27 April 2007

Synonyms

 * mark
 * prey
 * target

Noun

 * 1) A diamond-shaped tile or pane, notably of glass or stone

Verbs for Quarry
bait—; beguile—; contemplate—; corner—; draw—; gain on—; hole up—; investigate —; offer—; play for—; pursue—; risk—; speculate on—; tree—; vie for—; —delights ; —lures; —tempts.

Thesaurus
abysm, abyss, aim, avulse, bank, beasts of venery, big game, bonanza, bore, burrow, butt, by-end, by-purpose, chase, chasm, coal mine, colliery, cornucopia, cut out, delve, deracinate, destination, dig, dig out, dig up, diggings, dike, disentangle, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, drill, drive, end, end in view, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excavation, excise, exsect, extract, extricate, final cause, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, furrow, game, get, get out, goal, gold mine, gouge, gouge out, groove, grub, grub up, gulf, headspring, headstream, headwater, kill, lode, lower, mainspring, mark, mine, object, object in mind, objective, obtain, open cut, opencast, pan, pan for gold, pick out, pit, pluck out, pluck up, prey, prize, prospect, pull, pull out, pull up, pursuit, quintain, rake out, reason for being, remove, resource, rip out, riverhead, root out, root up, sap, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, shaft, shovel, sink, source, source of supply, spade, spring, springhead, staple, take out, target, tear out, teleology, the hunted, trench, trough, tunnel, ultimate aim, unearth, unravel, uproot, vein, venery, victim, weed out, well, wellhead, wellspring, withdraw, workings, wrest out

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
From quarreria (1266), literally a "place where stones are squared", from  quadrare "to square", itself from quadra 'a square'

Etymology 2
From quirre "entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward," from quirreie, from  cuiriee, altered (influenced by  cuir "skin," from  corium "hide"), from corée "viscera, entrails," from  corata "entrails," from  cor "heart."

Etymology 3
An alteration of quarrel

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Danish: stenbrud
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: cava di pietra
 * Polish: kamieniołom


 * Portuguese: pedreira
 * Romanian: carieră
 * Russian: каменоломня
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish: cantera
 * Swedish: stenbrott
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * Dutch: steenhouwen


 * Dutch: uitspitten
 * Finnish:


 * German:

Noun

 * Catalan: presa
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 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: vânat
 * Russian: ,
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