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quarry English

Meaning quarry meaning

What does quarry mean?

quarry

— verb extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry quarry marble — noun (= prey, target, fair game) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence he fell prey to muggers everyone was fair game the target of a manhunt — noun (= pit, stone pit) a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate a British term for 'quarry' is 'stone pit' — noun (= prey) animal hunted or caught for food

Synonyms quarry synonyms

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quarry English » English

mine prey pit extract stone pit target fair game victim produce gravel pit excavate cut capture unearth tile swag subterranean passage strip mine stone-pit spoil slate rock quarry recover racing course quarryman quarry glass pump prize plunder pillage picking pick opencast mine open-pit mine hole grub gold mine game excavation drill dirty money dig diamond-shaped pane of glass derive delve cut and carry off chase cavity catch career

Topics quarry topics

What do people use quarry to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Mining
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with stone

  • What words refer to a place where stone is dug out of the ground?
    quarry

Conjugation quarry conjugation

How do you conjugate quarry?

quarry · verb

Examples quarry examples

How do I use quarry in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

That marble quarry in the valley is simply magnificent.
I thought I'd take a look at this quarry.
The man sent from the quarry, Miss Francon.
The tall guy down at the quarry told me you got a fireplace you wanted me to fix.
But you were working like a convict in a granite quarry.
Stone quarry's all you can expect.
I got out of the quarry.
How about taking a swim, a moonlight swim at the old rock quarry?
There was no sign of our quarry.
As I waited for her in the North Sea at the crossroads of the war I hoped desperately that no other force would rob me of my quarry.
An orchestra plays a march from some operetta as inmates head off to the quarry or the factory.
Three thousand Spaniards died building these steps Leading to the Mauthausen quarry.
Tell me, is it true that there's still a stone quarry on Mt Nokogiri?
So four cubic meters is too much to quarry, eh?
We caught them down the old stone quarry.
This bit of meat was mined in a rock quarry.
Have you finished searching the quarry yet?
Pierre Michel, stone quarry, Saint Jean de Luz.
Second quarry on the left.
I saw him at the quarry. He was cutting stone.
Well, i just wondered if you'd mind. popping down to the rock quarry- well, a little later.
By the way, how long is it since you lot had a spell in the quarry? Quarry? The quarry.
The film was produced with an unbelievable effort (two real palm trees) partly in Egypt,(a chalk quarry by Ruedesordorf).
Gudule didn't notice she was walking along a quarry.
Let's me and you take a little walk over by the quarry, huh?
The quarry! Everyone out!
And if not, as those I have seen in the quarry.
Hey, hey, now I understand all the detours you have taken to reach this, and I'll tell you one thing: if you want stones, go to the quarry and pay for them.
Wait, the quarry. There'll be gelignite there.
For the quarry the monastery.
In this quarry.
Come on. We're goin' to the quarry.
Well, Uncle, did you ever see a quarry so swiftly put to flight?
The police killed her in the road, next to the quarry.

News and current affairs

An old quarry was being widened and leveled, and the boys followed the bulldozers as they scraped away a stratum of earth to reveal fragile, fossil-bearing shale underneath.
The boys who found the specimen didn't own the fossil quarry.
But Xi must now shift his focus from bagging another quarry to winning over new and perhaps unexpected allies.

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