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quarry
English
Alternative forms
- currie, curry (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kw??i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k(w)??i/
- Rhymes: -??i
- Hyphenation: quar?ry
Etymology 1
From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadr? (“I square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres (“four”).
Noun
quarry (plural quarries)
- (mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
Synonyms
- delf
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- Irish: cairéal m
- Welsh: chwarel m
Verb
quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)
- (transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
- (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
Synonyms
- (obtain stone by extraction): mine
- (extract by searching): dig, dig up, unearth
Derived terms
- quarrying (noun)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English quyrrey, querre, curee, quirre, from Anglo-Norman quirreie, from Old French cuiriee (“entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward”) (influenced by cuir (“skin (of an animal)”), from Latin corium (“a hide”)), from coree (“entrails, viscera”), from Vulgar Latin corata (“entrails”), from Latin cor (“heart”).
Noun
quarry (countable and uncountable, plural quarries)
- (uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
- (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
- (countable) An object of search or pursuit.
Synonyms
- mark
- prey
- target
Translations
Verb
quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)
- To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
Etymology 3
Alteration of quarrel (“diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window; square tile”).
Noun
quarry (plural quarries)
- A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
Derived terms
- quarry light
- quarry tile
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “quarry”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Further reading
- quarry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- quarry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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quarryman
English
Etymology
quarry +? -man
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?kw??.i.m?n/
Noun
quarryman (plural quarrymen)
- A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).
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