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Quarry   /kwˈɔri/   Listen
Quarry

noun
1.
A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence.  Synonyms: fair game, prey, target.  "Everyone was fair game" , "The target of a manhunt"
2.
A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.  Synonyms: pit, stone pit.
3.
Animal hunted or caught for food.  Synonym: prey.
verb
(past & past part. quarried; pres. part. quarrying)
1.
Extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry.



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"Quarry" Quotes from Famous Books



... about it, too, if, after boating, you are fond of a walk, while the river itself is at its best here. Down to Cookham, past the Quarry Woods and the meadows, is a lovely reach. Dear old Quarry Woods! with your narrow, climbing paths, and little winding glades, how scented to this hour you seem with memories of sunny summer days! How haunted are your shadowy vistas with the ghosts of laughing faces! ...
— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome

... moment, in despair. Was our trip to Etretat to be of no avail? Where was my premonition, now? If we had lost the trail thus early in the chase, what hope was there that we should ever run down the quarry? And how explain the fact that no record had been made of Frances Holladay's birth? Why should her parents have wished to conceal it? Would they not naturally have been anxious to see that ...
— The Holladay Case - A Tale • Burton E. Stevenson

... Denis, at the sign of the Austrian Arms. The host is a surly, close-mouthed churl who will give you little information until he knows you well. Then you may rely upon him. Jerome has been watching our quarry these many weeks; we hold him in easy reach, as a bait to catch his accomplice. Then we will put them both where they can spy upon us no longer. I desire them to be taken alive if possible, and by all the ...
— The Black Wolf's Breed - A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening - in the Reign of Louis XIV • Harris Dickson

... live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drappery of his conch About him, and ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

... are employed in building: some quarry the stone, others transport it, others cut it, and still others put it in place. Each of them adds a certain value to the material which passes through his hands; and this value, the product of his labor, is his property. He sells it, as fast as he creates it, to the proprietor ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon


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