Crossword clues for quarries
quarries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quarry \Quar"ry\, n.; pl. Quarries. [OE. querre, OF. cuiri['e]e, F. cur['e]e, fr. cuir hide, leather, fr. L. corium; the quarry given to the dogs being wrapped in the akin of the beast. See Cuirass.]
A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
A heap of game killed.
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The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks. ``The stone-dead quarry.''
--Spenser.The wily quarry shunned the shock.
--Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of quarry English)
Wikipedia
Quarries - (1.) The "Royal Quarries" (see Zedekiah's Cave) — not found in Scripture — is the name given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern hill, Bezetha, on which Jerusalem is built. Out of these mammoth caverns stones, a hard limestone, were quarried in the past for buildings in the city, and for the temples of Solomon, Zerubbabel, and Herod. Huge blocks of stone are still found in these caves bearing the marks of pick and chisel. The general appearance of the whole suggests the idea that the Phoenician quarrymen have just suspended their work. The theory that the blocks of stone for Solomon's temple were sent by Hiram from Lebanon or Tyre is not supported by any evidence (comp. 1 Kings 5:8). Instead, it is now believed that Hiram sent masons and stone-squarers to Jerusalem to assist Solomon's workmen, but did not send stones to Jerusalem. The stones would have come from these quarries
(2.) The "quarries" (Heb. pesilim) by Gilgal (Judg. 3:19), from which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his design to put Eglon king of Moab to death, were probably the "graven images" (as the word is rendered by the LXX. and the Vulgate and in the marg. A.V. and R.V.), or the idol temples the Moabites had erected at Gilgal, where the children of Israel first encamped after crossing the Jordan. The Hebrew word is rendered "graven images" in Deut. 7:25, and is not elsewhere translated "quarries."
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Usage examples of "quarries".
Been taking care of stupid sheep most of me life, Quarries mumbled, staggering over to the bed.
Then, when the person waved to her, she realized it was young Quarries, with Dubh beside him.
She assumed Quarries had a good impression of her, for he listened to her words and often nodded vigorously in agreement while making her laugh.
Gilberto Topolino to go back to the quarries, that would have been unfair.
If they cannot find what we need you must go yourself to the quarries and find our marble.
He waded through water up to his knees to clean off the loose debris, remembering the months he had spent in the quarries searching for the purest bed, supervising the cutting of the big blocks from the mountainside, lowering them down the precipitous slopes on cables and rollers, loading them on wagons which took them to the beach, rolling them gently over the sand onto the boats at low tide, all without a chip or crack or stain.
Their life in the quarries was so dangerous that when they parted from each other they did not say, "Good-by"
They were asking him about yesterday's search through the quarries of Grotta Colombara and Ronco.
The Polvaccio, at the extreme end of the Poggio Silvestro, produced good statuary white, but the surrounding quarries of Battaglino, Grotta Colombara and Ronco contained ordinary marbles with slanting veins.
But as he had spent his days in the quarries, detecting intuitively the hollows, bubbles, veining, knots.
Here he looked and felt no different from all the other men returning home from the quarries or marble shops.
Pelliccia owned important marble quarries, yet he did not use his friendship as an excuse to press his output upon Michelangelo.
Afterwards he asked about the Pope's plan for opening quarries in Pietrasanta, news of which had seeped through from Rome.
Had he been yearning for the Pope to open the Pietrasanta quarries, even while he proclaimed the feat impossible?
If he could start the marble columns flowing out of the quarries and onto the beach by October, his job would be done.