quarry: significato e definizioni

A hunted animal; prey.

Hunted animals considered as a group; game.

An object of pursuit: The police lost their quarry in the crowd.

An open excavation or pit from which stone is obtained by digging, cutting, or blasting.

A rich or productive source: found the book an indispensable quarry of information.

To obtain (stone) from a quarry, as by cutting, digging, or blasting.

To extract (facts, for example) by long, careful searching: finally quarried out the genealogy from hundreds of sources.

To use (land) as a quarry.

A square or diamond shape.

A pane of glass having this shape.