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plural quarries
plural quarries
quarried; quarrying
: to delve in or as if in a quarry
Example Sentences
Verb an area where workers are quarrying for limestone
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English quirre, querre entrails of game given to the hounds, from Anglo-French cureie, quereie, from quir, cuir skin, hide (on which the entrails were placed), from Latin corium — more at cuirass
Noun (2)
Middle English quarey, alteration of quarrere, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Late Latin quadrus hewn (literally, squared) stone, from Latin quadrum square
Noun (3)
alteration of quarrel entry 1
First Known Use
Noun (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3
Noun (2)
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1774, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Noun (3)
1537, in the meaning defined above
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