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quarrying

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of quarry

  2. The extraction of material from a quarry.

    • In 1765 only 80 men were employed, and the annual output of slates did not exceed 1,000 tons, and large-scale quarrying was not begun by Lord Penrhyn until 1782.

  3. A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.

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