quarry
Speech parts
1. quarry - Noun
2. quarry - Adjective
3. quarry - Verb
Meaning
Same as 1st Quarrel.
Quadrate; square.
A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
A heap of game killed.
The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).
To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
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he fell prey to muggers
everyone was fair game
the target of a manhunt
a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'
quarry marble
Able-bodied males were required to work, so from 1940 to 1944 Wojtyła variously worked as a messenger for a restaurant, a manual labourer in a limestone quarry and for the Solvay chemical factory, to avoid deportation to Germany.