QUARRY meaning: Site for extracting stone, minerals

We found 39 dictionaries that define the word quarry:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

quarry: Merriam-Webster.com
quarry, quarry, quarry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
quarry, quarry, quarry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
quarry: Collins English Dictionary
quarry: Vocabulary.com
Quarry, quarry: Wordnik
quarry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
quarry: Wiktionary
quarry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
quarry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
quarry: Infoplease Dictionary
Quarry, quarry: Dictionary.com
quarry (1), quarry (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
quarry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Quarry (TV series), Quarry (disambiguation), Quarry (prey), Quarry, The Quarry (Iain Banks novel), The Quarry (film), The Quarry (park), The Quarry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Quarry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
quarry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
quarry: Rhymezone
quarry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
quarry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Quarry, Quarry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
quarry: Free Dictionary
quarry: Mnemonic Dictionary
quarry: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
quarry: Dictionary/thesaurus
quarry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

quarry: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Quarry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

quarry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

quarry: Archaeology Wordsmith
Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

quarry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Quarry: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

quarry: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
▸ verb:  (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
▸ noun:  (countable) An object of search or pursuit.
▸ verb:  To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
▸ noun:  A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.

Similar:

pit, target, prey, fair game, stone pit, lime pit, limepit, limeyard, slatestone, ragstone, more...

Opposite:

rescuer, savior, deliverer

Types:

mine, pit, excavation, dig, more...

Phrases:

stone quarry, quarry tile, marble quarry, quarry face, quarry tiles, more...

Adjectives:

old, large, same, small, abandoned, nearby, disused, local, elusive, ancient, main

Colors:

gray, charcoal, smoke, silver

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