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quarry
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES quarry tile COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE disused ▪ They looked down into the big disused quarry . ▪ In a disused limestone quarry we tackled one of these obstacles safely, once we had been told how to do it. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1774, from quarry (n.2). Related: Quarried ; quarrying .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quarry \Quar"ry\, a. [OF. quarr['e].] Quadrate; square. [Obs.]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
thumb|upright=1.3|Stone quarry in Soignies , Hainaut (province) , Belgium. A quarry is a place from which dimension stone , rock , construction aggregate , riprap , sand , gravel , or slate has been excavated from the ground. A quarry is the same thing ...
Usage examples of quarry.
Eugene Bertrand reported to the Anthropological Society of Paris that he found parts of a human skull, along with a femur, tibia, and some foot bones, in a quarry on the Avenue de Clichy.
In 1868, Eugene Bertrand reported to the Anthropological Society of Paris that he found parts of a human skull, along with a femur, tibia, and some foot bones, in a quarry on the Avenue de Clichy.
The tiny white van, holding back in case the apprentice should turn and see them, proceeded at a safe distance, following the quarry past the school and the new flats until they reached the University gate.
As he looked forward towards the bowsprit of his schooner the Frenchman imagined what his quarry would see.
They were skirting an overgrown limestone quarry four leagues north from Brous as the sun sank behind the trees on their right.
I might have given it a try anyway, but beside me Mendoza was hyperventilating, so I just shook my head and focused on my quarry.
Having failed to stop the Swede, de la Mery was in no position to sheer off, leaving his quarry to tell of their escape.
Sergeant Nectarine Savoy and Detective Leo Wickes were alert for signs of a quarry they were certain was in this room.
While normally the raven could outfly her, she was counting on that wound to slow her quarry down.
It was blind and invisible because it was in overdrive, but it came nearer and nearer to its unseen quarry.
GREAT BOOK, tile Seventy-first on LOVE, wherein nothing is written, but the Reader receives a Lanthorn, a Powder-cask and a Pick-axe, and therewith pursues his yellow-dusking path across the rubble of preceding excavators in the solitary quarry: a yet more instructive passage than the overscrawled Seventieth, or French Section, whence the chapter opens, and where hitherto the polite world has halted.
The citadel, crafted from ruddy sandstone blocks quarried in the valley below, appeared to have been designed by a mad patissier for a reception of a million.
This was what Perella liked to do: station herself near her quarry, working as a dancer in some sour dive.
Having equipped their canoas or periaguas they secured them to the stern of their ship, and set sail towards their quarry.
The friendly relations of Michael Angelo with the natives of Carrara continued until the Pope obliged him to leave their quarries and open up those of Pietra Santa, in Tuscan territory, by which act Michael Angelo lost much time.