quarry

Meaning

Noun

A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.

Verb

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

Verb

To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

Concepts

quarry

mine

prey

extract

pit

stone pit

target

fair game

gravel pit

capture

cut

excavate

victim

produce

career

racing course

begin to talk

break the ice

bring down

broach

cut and carry off

gold mine

delve

drill

chase

slate

tile

quarryman

stone-pit

cavity

excavation

hole

derive

pump

grub

diamond-shaped pane of glass

quarry glass

ballast pit

rock quarry

open-pit mine

opencast mine

strip mine

subterranean passage

dig

bag

booty

catch

dirty money

pick

picking

pillage

plunder

prize

spoil

swag

game

recover

unearth

Hyphenated as

quar‧ry

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkwɒɹ.i/

Etymology

From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“I square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).