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Quarry

/ˈkwɒɹi/

A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.

📖 Definitions of "Quarry"

noun
  1. 1

    A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.

    "Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara."

verb
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

    "They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri."

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