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Quarry

noun

A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence. Synonyms: fair game, prey, target. "Everyone was fair game" , "The target of a manhunt"

A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate. Synonyms: pit, stone pit.

Animal hunted or caught for food. Synonym: prey.

verb

(past & past part. quarried; pres. part. quarrying)

Extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry.

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"Quarry" Quotes from Famous Books

... three spears, the Englishman with his rifle and four shikarries, in which order they slowly crept along the passage, the sides of which were worn smooth by continual friction of tigers passing to and fro, until growls and snarls proclaimed that their quarry was ...

— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready

... that the words e rupe sumptum, vel rupe constans saxeum palatium, are at any rate materials, out of which a proper name could be constructed. The place to be sure, whether a palace, or a temple, is built of stone taken from the quarry, or rock: but what temple or palace is not? Can we believe that they would give as a proper name to one place, what was in a manner common to all; and choose for a characteristic what was so general and indeterminate? It is not to be supposed. Every symbol, and representation ...

— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant

... gasping horribly the while. Then suddenly it started forward past him, and the tough hide rope about Otter's middle ran out like the line from the bow of a whale-boat when the harpoon has gone home in the quarry. ...

— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard

... not open a quarry in the beginning of the Sabbatical year in his field, unless there be already in it three heaps of stones measuring three cubits by three cubits, and in height three cubits, counting twenty-seven ...

— Hebrew Literature

... so much of the ruins should still remain of the amphitheatre in spite of so many centuries of destruction acting upon it, and, notwithstanding its having been constantly resorted to as a quarry, whenever materials were required for construction. In one of the quarters of the town, the Rue des Arenes and the Bourg Cani, where the poorest people live, almost all the houses are formed of the ...

— Barn and the Pyrenees - A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre • Louisa Stuart Costello

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