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Quarry

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Noun

1. fair game, prey, quarry, target

a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence

Example Sentences:
'he fell prey to muggers'
'everyone was fair game'
'the target of a manhunt'

2. pit, quarry, stone pit

a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate

Example Sentences:
'a British term for quarry' is stone pit''

3. prey, quarry

animal hunted or caught for food

Verb

4. quarry

extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry

Example Sentences:
'quarry marble'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quarry

see synonyms of quarry
noun plural -ries
1. 
an open surface excavation for the extraction of building stone, slate, marble, etc, by drilling, blasting, or cutting
2. 
a copious source of something, esp information
verb -ries, -rying or -ried
3. 
to extract (stone, slate, etc) from or as if from a quarry
4. (transitive)
to excavate a quarry in
5. 
to obtain (something, esp information) diligently and laboriously
he was quarrying away in the reference library
noun plural -ries
1. 
an animal, bird, or fish that is hunted, esp by other animals; prey
2. 
anything pursued or hunted
noun plural -ries
1. 
a square or diamond shape
2. 
something having this shape
3.  another word for quarrel2

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Quarry

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nounWord forms: plural ˈquarries
1. 
an animal that is being hunted down, esp. with dogs or hawks; prey
2. 
anything being hunted or pursued
nounWord forms: plural ˈquarries
a square or diamond-shaped piece of glass, tile, etc.
nounWord forms: plural ˈquarries
1. 
a place where building stone, marble, or slate is excavated, as by cutting or blasting
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈquarried or ˈquarrying
2. 
to excavate from a quarry
3. 
to make a quarry in (land)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Quarry

see synonyms of quarry
n. pl. quar·ries
1.
a. A hunted animal; prey.
b. Hunted animals considered as a group; game.
2. An object of pursuit: The police lost their quarry in the crowd.
n. pl. quar·ries
1. An open excavation or pit from which stone is obtained by digging, cutting, or blasting.
2. A rich or productive source: found the book an indispensable quarry of information.
tr.v. quar·ried, quar·ry·ing, quar·ries
1. To obtain (stone) from a quarry, as by cutting, digging, or blasting.
2. To extract (facts, for example) by long, careful searching: finally quarried out the genealogy from hundreds of sources.
3. To use (land) as a quarry.
n. pl. quar·ries
1. A square or diamond shape.
2. A pane of glass having this shape.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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