quarry
quar‧ry1 /ˈkwɒri $ ˈkwɔː-, ˈkwɑː-/ 
noun (plural quarries)
Language: Old French
Origin: quarriere, from an unrecorded quarre 'square stone', from Latin quadrum 'square'
Language: Old French
Origin: cuiree 'inside parts of a killed animal given to the hunting dogs', probably from Late Latin corata, from Latin cor 'heart'1. [countable] a place where large amounts of stone or sand are dug out of the ground:
a slate quarry
2. [singular] the person or animal that you are hunting or chasing:
Briefly, the hunter and his quarry glared at each other.
quarry2 verb (past tense and past participle quarried, present participle quarrying, third person singular quarries) [transitive]
to dig stone or sand from a quarry
quarry something for something
The rock here is quarried for building stones.
quarry something from something
Chalk is quarried from the surrounding area.
—quarrying noun [uncountable]
| I |
noun (plural quarries) Sense 1
Date: 1300-1400Language: Old French
Origin: quarriere, from an unrecorded quarre 'square stone', from Latin quadrum 'square'
Sense 2
Date: 1400-1500Language: Old French
Origin: cuiree 'inside parts of a killed animal given to the hunting dogs', probably from Late Latin corata, from Latin cor 'heart'
2. [singular] the person or animal that you are hunting or chasing:
| II |
verb (past tense and past participle quarried, present participle quarrying, third person singular quarries) [transitive]to dig stone or sand from a quarry
quarry something for something
quarry something from something
—quarrying noun [uncountable]