Quarry

noun

Word Frequency: 2.3

Definitions

1.nounA site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.

"Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara."

2.verbTo obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.

3.verbTo extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

"They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri."

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