📖 Definitions of "Quarries"
noun
- 1
A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
"Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara."
verb
- 1
To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
- 2
To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
"They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri."
noun
- 1
A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
- 2
An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
- 3
An object of search or pursuit.
verb
- 1
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
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