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quarry    音标拼音: [kw'ɔri]
n. 采石场,猎物,追求物,出处
vt. 挖出,苦心找出
vi. 费力地找

采石场,猎物,追求物,出处挖出,苦心找出费力地找

quarry
n 1: a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim
of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or
influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair
game"; "the target of a manhunt" [synonym: {prey}, {quarry},
{target}, {fair game}]
2: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a
British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" [synonym: {pit},
{quarry}, {stone pit}]
3: animal hunted or caught for food [synonym: {prey}, {quarry}]
v 1: extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a
quarry; "quarry marble"

Quarry \Quar"ry\, n. [OE. quarre, OF. quarr['e] square, F.
carr['e], from L. quadratus square, quadrate, quadratum a
square. See {Quadrate}, and cf. {Quarrel} an arrow.]
Same as 1st {Quarrel}. [Obs.] --Fairfax.
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Quarry \Quar"ry\, a. [OF. quarr['e].]
Quadrate; square. [Obs.]
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Quarry \Quar"ry\, n.; pl. {Quarries}. [OE. querre, OF.
cuiri['e]e, F. cur['e]e, fr. cuir hide, leather, fr. L.
corium; the quarry given to the dogs being wrapped in the
akin of the beast. See {Cuirass}.]
1.
(a) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to
the hounds.
(b) A heap of game killed.
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2. The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game;
especially, the game hunted with hawks. "The stone-dead
quarry." --Spenser.
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The wily quarry shunned the shock. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Quarry \Quar"ry\, v. i.
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy. --L'Estrange.
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Quarry \Quar"ry\, n. [OE. quarrere, OF. quariere, F.
carri[`e]re, LL. quadraria a quarry, whence squared
(quadrati) stones are dug, fr. quadratus square. See
{Quadrate}.]
A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or
ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes;
a stone pit. See 5th {Mine}
(a) .
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Quarry \Quar"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quarried}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Quarrying}.]
To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
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136 Moby Thesaurus words for "quarry":
abysm, abyss, aim, avulse, bank, beasts of venery, big game,
bonanza, bore, burrow, butt, by-end, by-purpose, chase, chasm,
coal mine, colliery, cornucopia, cut out, delve, deracinate,
destination, dig, dig out, dig up, diggings, dike, disentangle,
draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, drill, drive, end, end in view,
eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excavation, excise, exsect,
extract, extricate, final cause, font, fount, fountain,
fountainhead, furrow, game, get, get out, goal, gold mine, gouge,
gouge out, groove, grub, grub up, gulf, headspring, headstream,
headwater, kill, lode, lower, mainspring, mark, mine, object,
object in mind, objective, obtain, open cut, opencast, pan,
pan for gold, pick out, pit, pluck out, pluck up, prey, prize,
prospect, pull, pull out, pull up, pursuit, quintain, rake out,
reason for being, remove, resource, rip out, riverhead, root out,
root up, sap, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, shaft,
shovel, sink, source, source of supply, spade, spring, springhead,
staple, take out, target, tear out, teleology, the hunted, trench,
trough, tunnel, ultimate aim, unearth, unravel, uproot, vein,
venery, victim, weed out, well, wellhead, wellspring, withdraw,
workings, wrest out

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