quarry
/ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/ verb C2- To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
- To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching. · They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.
He/she/it quarries · Past quarried · Past participle quarried · -ing form quarrying
Verb forms
- Base form
- quarry
- He/she/it
- quarries
- Past
- quarried
- Past participle
- quarried
- -ing form
- quarrying
From the library
“My quarry.
A steep, boulder-sprinkled hill lay upon the right which had in bygone days been cut into a granite quarry.
There, fearing that perhaps I had come in the wrong direction after all, I mounted a hill from which I could command a view—the same hill which is cut into the dark quarry.
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