different between quarry vs rummage

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)

1. (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)

1. (transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
2. (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)

1. (uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
2. (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
3. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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

English

Etymology

From Old French arrumage (confer French arrimage), from arrumer (“to arrange the cargo in the hold”) (confer French arrimer and Spanish arrumar).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???m.?d?/

Verb

rummage (third-person singular simple present rummages, present participle rummaging, simple past and past participle rummaged)

1. (transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
2. (transitive, nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.

3. (transitive) To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
   • 30 August, 1632, James Howell, "To the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mohun" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     He […] searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.

   • 1866, Matthew Arnold, The Study of Celtic Literature

     What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!
   1. (intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.

Translations

Noun

rummage (countable and uncountable, plural rummages)

1. A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.

   Have a rummage through the attic and see if you can find anything worth selling.

   • May 24, 1753, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway

     He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.

2. (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance.
3. A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
4. (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
5. (nautical) The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.

   Synonym: (obsolete) romage

Related terms

• look
• quarry
• rake
• search

See also

• rummage sale