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quarry

noun
/ˈkwɒɹ.i/UK/ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/US/ˈkwɑɹ.i/

Etymology

From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“to square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).

  1. derived from *kʷetwóres✻
  2. derived from quadrō
  3. derived from quarrière
  4. derived from quarreria
  5. inherited from quarere

Definitions

  1. A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.

    • Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.

  2. To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.

    • The incloſing of this country might alſo be effected, were the landlord to quarry the ſtones, and build the walls at his expence, and the tenant to carry the materials, and pay intereſt for the money advanced by the landlord.
    • The stone of which this town and church was built, is somewhat of the nature of "rotten limestone,"—is quite light in color,—quarries out regularly and easily,—is soft, when first quarried, but becomes hard on exposure to the air.

  3. To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

    • They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.
    • The second part of Aristotle's work requires little description. […] It has been largely quarried by the grammarians and lexicographers of later ages, from whom modern students of Athenian antiquities have derived their information; […]
    • They will be guided and inspired by such utterance as Parrington's diagnosis of Sinclair Lewis, where he quarries out a vein of his own enduring liberalism.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.

      • Quarry, among hunters, is ſometimes uſed for part of the viſcera of the beaſt taken; given by way of reward to the hounds.

    2. An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.

      • Nofi Raranta, 37, the town's main clove dealer, is also the top hunter, employing about a hundred men who comb the surrounding forests for quarry.

    3. An object of search or pursuit.

      • Meanwhile his Ladie, which this outrage ſaw, / Whileſt they together for the quarrey ſtroue, / Into the couert did her ſelfe withdrw, / And cloſely hid her ſelfe within the groue.

    4. To secure prey

      To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

    5. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.

      • The boyes playing at ſtooleball, by chaunce broke a quarry of the glaſſe, whereupon he complayned to the Towneſhip, and either had, or did his utmoſt to haue the poor boy whipt, […]
      • A window towards the eaſt (whoſe fractured quarries proclaimed the ravages of time) admitted a dim, ſhadowy light, over the whole manſion.

The neighborhood

Derived

quarriable, quarrier, quarrying

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA