Definitions for quarries

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quarries quar·ry

Spelling: [kwawr-ee, kwor-ee]

IPA: /ˈkwɔr i, ˈkwɒr i/

Quarries is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in quarries (aeiqrrsu).

Definitions for quarries

noun

1. an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
2. an abundant source or supply.
3. an animal or bird hunted or pursued.
4. game, especially game hunted with hounds or hawks.
5. any object of search, pursuit, or attack.
6. a square stone or tile.
7. quarrel2 (def 2).

verb (used with object)

1. to obtain (stone) from or as if from a quarry.
2. to make a quarry in.

Origin of quarries

1375-1425; Middle English quarey (noun) Medieval Latin quareia, variant of quareria Old French quarriere Vulgar Latin *quadrāria place where stone is squared, derivative of Latin quadrāre to

Examples for quarries

Not our quarries and kilns, but others five times as far away.

It was just like the great Red Pipestone quarries of Minnesota.

You know, with the quarries shut down, what business has been.

The subjects of his work range from mines, quarries, and shipping around the world to manufacturing and urban renewal in China.

The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities.

He's a contractor himself, who furnishes labor for the quarries.

There is nothing marvellous in this, for quarries of hard asphalt are numerous there.

Some say I ought to have built it across the river, where the quarries are.

I thought so, too; but it might be a blast, for we are not far from the quarries.

Jean, who was beginning to recover his self-possession, proposed the quarries.