Quarry

Definition: Quarry

Quarry

Noun

1. A person who is the victim of ridicule or exploitation by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game".

2. A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate: "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'".

3. Animal hunted or caught for food.

Verb

1. Extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry; "quarry marble".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quarry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Quarry

Intention

Quintain; prey, quarry, game.

Store

Noun: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.

Crosswords: Quarry

Oh and two weeks paid vacation for all the workers in the quarry, an annual cost-of-living increase, and those little packets of ketchup in the lunch room. (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein)

Nick Quarry (1968)

The Quarry (2002)

Quarry (1996)

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Books

• Quarry (reference)

• Viper Quarry (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Quarry (reference)

• Quarry And Construction (reference)

• Quarry Management (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

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The stone quarry at Easter Island. Credit: Small World.

Dinosaur bone being prepared for removal from Peterson dinosaur quarry site near Albuquerque, NM. Credit: Mike O'Neill.

One of many bone found in the peterson jurassic period dinosaur quarry west of Albuquerque, NM. Credit: Mike O'Neill.

Storm waves at Quarry Cove in the Yaquina Head ONA. Credit: Delaini.

BLM employees and visitors at the Quarry Cove tidepools in the Yaquina Head ONA. Credit: Richard Bjerkuig.

A shot of the construction at Quarry Cove from above, with a dead tree in the foreground. Credit: John Craig.

View of the construction at Quarry Cove from above. Credit: John Craig.

Breaking the Sea Wall during the construction at Quarry Cove. Credit: John Craig.

Breaching Sea Wall at Quarry Cove, using back hoe, truck, and hydralic hammer. Credit: John Craig.

Sea wall is breached at Quarry Cove. Credit: John Craig.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The halloo was sounded by 1772, 1815 is the quarry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The Greek housing industry has been traditionally dependent upon concrete and quarry products. (references)

Locally produced mining equipment is predominantly small machinery for rock quarry exploitation. (references)

In addition, Ensenada has abundant reserves of metallic and non-metallic minerals, including precious metals, metals for industrial use, and quarry products. (references)

Civil Liberties

Antigua and Barbuda

Residents cited increased numbers of persons with asthma and a serious injury to a young girl when a rock blasted from the quarry fell into a schoolyard. (references)

Antigua and Barbuda

Police intervention led to the arrest and detention of several persons protesting continued operation of the quarry, on charges including obstruction, resisting arrest, and assault and battery. (references)

Economic History

Swaziland

There also is a quarry industry for domestic consumption. (references)

Worker Rights

Ghana

Children under 10 work as domestic laborers, porters, hawkers, miners, quarry workers; they also work in agriculture. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "quarry": Gantts Quarry ♦ Granite Quarry ♦ limestone quarry ♦ open quarry ♦ quarry face ♦ quarry man ♦ quarry out ♦ quarry stone ♦ quarry tile ♦ sandstone quarry. Additional references.

Beginning with "quarry": quarry-by-quarry, quarry-cliff, Quarry-faced, quarry-gulf, Quarry-man, quarry-source, quarry-tiled, quarry-workers, quarry-working.

Ending with "quarry": granite-quarry, quarry-by-quarry, slate-quarry, stone-quarry.

Albanian

shfrytëzoj (avail oneself of, embrace, exercise, exploit, harness, maintain, make the best, make the most of, make use of, milk, use, utilize, work, work out), pre (booty, chase, loot, prey, ravin, spoil, swag, victim), plaçkë (belongings, chattel, clobber, cloth, loot, plunder, spoil, stuff, swag, things, trap), nxjerr gurë, minierë (diggings, groove, mine, rabbet), gurore (stone pit, stone-quarry, stony), burim informacioni. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقلع, ‏طريدة (chase, game), ‏المحجرة, ‏إستغل (avail, exploit, follow up, harness, impose, milk, presume, profiteer, take advantage of, tap, trade on), ‏إستخرج (educe, elicit, evolve, excavate, extract, lever, mine, read out, shake). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ровя се (burrow, grub), кариера (career, excavation, mine, pit, race), каменоломна (stone pit), вадя от кариера, обект на отмъщение, обект на преследване, нещо желано и преследвано, набелязана жертва, проучвам (bottom, examine, explore, inspect, investigate, probe, prospect, read up, research, scout, see about, see into, sound out, study, survey, turn over, vet), плячка (booty, fish, haul, kill, loot, pillage, plunderage, prey, prize, ravin, spoil, spoils, swag, trophy), източник (derivation, font, fountain-head, hand, mint, origin, parent, paternity, quarter, quarters, reservoir, source, spring, thesaurus, well), изкопавам (dig, disinter, excavate, grub, mine, sink, turn up, unearth), издълбавам (bore, chase, engrave, gouge, hollow out, incise, notch, scoop out, scrape, scrape out). (various references)

Chinese 

猎物 (Quarries), 採石� � (stone pit). (various references)

Czech

tìžit (exploit, extract, profit), lom, lámat (break), kořist (booty, haul, loot, plunder, prey, spoil, trophy), dobývat (dig for, extract, mine), úlovek (bag, catch, haul, kill, take). (various references)

Danish

stenbrud. (various references)

Dutch

steengroeve. (various references)

Farsi 

معدن سنگ , لاشه شکار, توده انباشته , صید (Predatin, Prey, Raven), اشکارکردن (Air, Announce, Bare, Disclose, Display, Light, Reveal, Unbonnet, Uncover, Unfold, Unhood), شیشه الماسی چهارگوش , شکار (Chase-Chace, Game, Hank, Hunt, Predatin, Prey, Raven, Victim). (various references)

Finnish

louhos (stone-pit). (various references)

French

carrière. (various references)

German

Steinbruch. (various references)

Greek 

νταμάρι (pit), λατομείο (pit). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחצב�", מחצב (mineral, origin), לחצוב (carve, chisel, hew, tunnel), חי�" � ר�"פת. (various references)

Hungarian

konc, zsákmány (booty, catch, chase, filch, heist, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, salvage, spoil, takings), tárház (garner, repository, storehouse), lelőhely (home, locality), kőfejtő (quarryman, quarrymen), kőbánya (strip pit). (various references)

Italian

cava (pit). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

採石� � (stone pit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さいせきじょう (stone pit). (various references)

Korean 

채석장 (Quarries). (various references)

Manx

shelg (chase, hunt, prey, prowl, pursuit, run, shoot, spleen, the field, venery), quarral, cleiy (delve, dig, dig out, digging, earthwork, harvest, hedge, hedging). (various references)

Norwegian

steinbrudd, jaktbytte, bryte stein. (various references)

Pig Latin

arryquay

Portuguese

pedreira. (various references)

Romanian

sursã (beginning, capital, derivation, efflux, fountain, hand, mother, parent, rise, root, source, spring, well, wellhead), scotoci (comb, ferret, go through, grub, paw, ransack, rummage, search), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), rãscoli (agitate, disturb, rake, rout, rummage, stir, turn smth. inside out), pradã (booty, capture, catch, haul, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, spoil, take), persoanã urmãritã, izvor (beginning, bourn, Bourne, efflux, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, head, headspring, mine, mother, origin, origination, parent, rise, source, spring, well, wellhead), exploata (cultivate, exploit, get, hack, horse, milk, mine, operate, overwork, screw, sweat, win, work), carierã (career, pit, vocation, walk of life), animale vânate. (various references)

Russian 

рыться (delve, grub, rake), карьер (career, stone-pit), каменоломня (stone pit, stone-pit), добыча (capture, catch, crop, digging, haul, kill, loot, out-turn, plunderage, ravin, recovery, spoil, swag). (various references)

Scottish

tochail (dig). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vaditi kamen, plen (booty, kill, plunder, prey, ravin, spoil, spoils, swag, trophy), kamenolom (stone pit), gonjena zver. (various references)

Spanish

cantera (pit). (various references)

Swazi

úm-tsápho. (various references)

Swedish

stenbrott, byte (booty, change, exchange, kill, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, spoil, swap). (various references)

Turkish

yontma yapı taşı, tuzağa düşürülen kimse, taş ocağından çıkarmak, taş ocağı açmak, taş ocağı (stone pit), maden (diggings, metal, mine, mineral, ore), karo (diamond, tile), baklava şeklinde cam, av (catch, chase, fowling, Hunt, hunting, kill, killing, pickup, prey, shikar, shoot, shooting, sporting), araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, forage, fossick, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quest, rake, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey). (various references)

Ukrainian

ритися (burrow, delve, root about, rummage, scrabble), каменярня, вишукувати (mouse, nose, nose for, poke about, poke around, rake up), видобувати (mine, take), здобич (bag, booty, capture, catch, kill, loot, plunder, prey, ravin, swag), джерело (authorship, beginning, channel, cradle, derivation, fount, fountain-head, headspring, lymph, origin, parent, paternity, principle, progenitor, radix, source, spring, well, wellspring, whence). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngu�"n lấy tin tức, con m�"i. (various references)

Welsh

cwar, cloddio (delve, dig, mine), cloddfa (mine), chwarel (pane of glass). (various references)

cor, corium, metalla, metallum, quadrare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "quarry": quarrying, quarryings, quarryman, quarrymen. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quarry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: guarry, karry, quadry, quahr, quar, quara, quarb, quard, quarey, quarf, quarg, quari, quarie, quarj, quarky, quarm, quaro, quarp, quarr, quarre, quarri, quarric, quarrie, quarrys, quarty, quary, quaryz, quatrro, queary, querr, querre, querty, quiry, quorry, quory, quray, qurry. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: quay.

-3 letters: qua, ray, rya, yar.

-4 letters: ar, ay, ya.

+3 letters: marquetry, parquetry, quarrying, quarryman, quarrymen, quarterly, reliquary.

+4 letters: quarryings, quaternary, squirarchy.

+5 letters: squirearchy.