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quarry verb2. L18.
[from QUARRY noun2.]
verb trans. Extract (stone etc.) from a quarry. Also, form (a cavity) by or as if by such extraction. Also foll. by out. L18.
Goldsmith In the mountains..they quarry out a white stone. Mollie Harris Roofed with grey stone slates quarried at Stonesfield. Antiquaries Journal An approximately square or rectangular chamber quarried in the soft bedrock.
b. fig. Obtain or extract by laborious methods. M19.
L. Durrell Were these words..quarried from his own experience?
c. Geology. = PLUCK verb 1c. L19.
verb trans. Form a quarry or quarries in, cut into (rock, ground, etc.). M19.
verb intrans. Cut or dig (as) in a quarry. M19.
J. Masefield A hundred years ago they quarried for the stone here.
quarriable adjective M19.