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quarry
  1. (uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
  2. (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
  3. (countable) An object of search or pursuit.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “They had the ability to remorselessly pursue their quarry at a relentless pace, regardless of the mid-day sun.”
      “He quietly examined with interest the bloodied and broken corpse of the quarry he had slain only moments earlier.”
      “Marble from the quarry was used for The Lincoln Memorial.”
quarry
  1. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They had the ability to remorselessly pursue their quarry at a relentless pace, regardless of the mid-day sun.”
      “He quietly examined with interest the bloodied and broken corpse of the quarry he had slain only moments earlier.”
      “Marble from the quarry was used for The Lincoln Memorial.”
quarry
  1. (mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They had the ability to remorselessly pursue their quarry at a relentless pace, regardless of the mid-day sun.”
      “He quietly examined with interest the bloodied and broken corpse of the quarry he had slain only moments earlier.”
      “Marble from the quarry was used for The Lincoln Memorial.”
quarrying
quarryman
  1. A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He was a husband, father, farmer, sawyer, commercial fisherman, quarryman, storyteller and, every now and then, beer drinker.”
      “This was Evan Peters, the quarryman, and I glanced at him very suspiciously.”
      “The quarryman offered to guide him, and declared that he would find Peter there.”
quarrier
  1. Somebody who works in a quarry.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “So he took his cong, leaving her standing there with quarrier, and mounted to his room.”
      “In the case of precise commands, he can also work with local craftsmen: iron craftsman, cabinet maker, quarrier, chocolate makers?”
      “It is not common in the trades of the stone only one company controls the activities of quarrier jointly, of cut of stone and funerary.”
quar
  1. (obsolete) A quarry.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Huddersfield team will face Britannia AFC of Tadcaster in the last four after scoring a 5-2 victory over Toller in the quar ter-finals.”
quarrymen
quarryings
quarriers
quarries
  1. plural of quarry
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Gravel pits, marl pits and stone quarries were also an early source of freight tonnage as was cement.”
      “The basalt lava in particular has been, and is still being, extensively quarried for road aggregate in many large quarries on those mountains.”
      “The second application relates to the granulometric composition of a blasted rock mass in quarries.”
quars
  1. plural of quar
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