quarry

Universal Words noun, verb noun (plural quarries) 1 [C] a place where large amounts of stone, etc. are dug out of the ground: a chalk / slate quarry * the site of a disused quarry compareMINEn.(1) 2 [sing.] an animal or a person that is being hunted or followed: The hunters lost sight of their quarry in the forest. * The photographers pursued their quarry through the streets. verb (quarries, quarrying, quarried, quarried) ~ (for) sth