QUARRY meaning: Site for extracting stone, minerals

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word quarry:

General (27 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: Dictionary/thesaurus
quarry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

quarry: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
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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)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
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, stone, pewter, graphite, more...

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