Wednesday , 6 November 2024

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

Plattsburgh Quarry and quarry meaning and quarry
Plattsburgh Quarry – Credit for image: graymont.com
  • 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.
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