Definitions for quarry

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quarry quar·ry

Spelling: [kwawr-ee, kwor-ee]

IPA: /ˈkwɔr i, ˈkwɒr i/

Quarry is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in quarry (aqrruy).

Definitions for quarry

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 quarry

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 quarry

Wrens and sparrows are not too ignoble a quarry for this villainous gos-hawk!

The sexually voracious alpha-female who seduces and then consumes her quarry?

There is a relationship that develops, tense and often testy, between a journalist and his quarry.

He says the way we do this is similar to a bird of prey assessing its quarry, swooping in.

They had probably divined, too, that the quarry was at bay and was dangerous.

And they came like the wind, yelling at the sight of their quarry.

But why should she voluntarily lay-to in the very sight of her quarry?

Her quarry, Brody, meanwhile, defined himself as a soldier, a patriot, and a father.

Tse-tse, who trusted me to keep the scent, was watching ahead for a sight of the quarry.

As rocks tumbled from the quarry wall above, the need for capped helmets became clear.