quarry

About 2.31 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

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

2. verb To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
3. verb To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

   They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.

4. noun A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
5. noun An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
6. noun An object of search or pursuit.
7. verb To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
8. noun A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

quarried quarries quarrying