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quarry

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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he fell prey to muggers Source: Internet

everyone was fair game Source: Internet

the target of a manhunt Source: Internet

a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit' Source: Internet

quarry marble Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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