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
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for quarry is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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