Quarry meaning

Noun: quarry

Pronunciation: (kwo`-ree)

Quarry meaning: An open excavation usually for extracting stone, slate or limestone; also a rich source of something

Synonyms: pit, stone pit

• Animal hunted or caught for food
• A person who is the aim of an attack by some hostile person or influence

The material used for construction of this dam was quarried from a nearby site.

In Paris, the quarries are a vast cavern under the city, several miles in extent.

We visited an area where workers were quarrying for limestone.

I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.

It’s a better story than meeting in a bar. You don’t know what you’re going to drag up from a quarry at night.

They are shutting down that quarry. They have ceased operations there.

I was very pleased to hear that they were calling the township and coming down here. The quarry is an important project in the township.

Using our land might make the quarry more efficient, which would allow them to extract the rock more quickly.

It is wrong for a prosecutor to keep on indicting the same person over and over again in the hope that he may someday tell him something about his real quarry.