Quarry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A hunted animal; prey.
  • n. Hunted animals considered as a group; game.
  • n. An object of pursuit: The police lost their quarry in the crowd.
  • n. An open excavation or pit from which stone is obtained by digging, cutting, or blasting.
  • n. A rich or productive source: found the book an indispensable quarry of information.
  • v. To obtain (stone) from a quarry, as by cutting, digging, or blasting.
  • v. To extract (facts, for example) by long, careful searching: finally quarried out the genealogy from hundreds of sources.
  • v. To use (land) as a quarry.
  • n. A square or diamond shape.
  • n. A pane of glass having this shape.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A site for mining stone, limestone or slate.
  • v. To obtain (mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
  • v. (transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
  • n. An animal which is hunted, notably mammal or bird.
  • n. An object of search or pursuit.
  • n. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, notably of glass or stone
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as 1st quarrel.
  • adj. Quadrate; square.
  • n.
  • 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.
  • verb-intransitive. 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. To dig or take from a quarry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Square; quadrate.
  • Stout; fat; corpulent.
  • n. A square or lozenge.
  • n. A small square or lozenge-shaped pane of glass: same as quarrel, 1 .
  • n. A bolt or arrow with a square head: same as quarrel, 2.
  • n. A place, cavern, or pit where stones are dug from the earth, or separated, as by blasting with gunpowder, from a large mass of rock.
  • To dig or take from a quarry: as, to quarry marble.
  • n. The refuse parts of an animal slain in the chase, given in the skin to the hounds: as, to make the quarry (to open and skin the animal slain, and give the refuse to the hounds).
  • n. A beast of the chase when pursued or slain; any creature hunted by men or by beasts or birds of prey, especially after it has been killed.
  • n. Hunted or slaughtered game, or any object of eager pursuit.
  • To prey, as a vulture or harpy.
  • To provide with prey.
  • To pave with quarries. See quarry, 1 .
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry
  • n. a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
  • n. a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
  • n. animal hunted or caught for food
  • Verb Form
    quarried    quarries    quarrying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tap    exploit    victim    beast    brute    fauna    creature    animate being    animal   
    Variant
    quarried    quarrel    mine   
    Form
    quarried    quarrying   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    quadrate    square    game    prey    object    excavation    dig    target    mark    mine   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Corey    Corrie    Cory    Dorey    Dorrie    Florey    Florrie    Flory    Gorey    Korey   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    canyon    bluff    cliff    chasm    cavern    crater    precipice    ledge    prey    glen