quarry¹ /kworˈi/

1. An open excavation for building-stone, slate, etc
2. Any source of building-stone, etc
3. A great mass of stone or rock (obsolete)
4. A source from which information can be extracted (figurative)

1. To dig from, or as from, a quarry
2. To cut into or cut away
3. To extract (information) from a source

quarrˈiable adjective

quarrˈier noun

A quarryman

quarrˈyman noun

A man who works in a quarry

quarrˈymaster noun

The owner of a quarry

quarrˈy-sap or quarrˈy-water noun

The water in the pores of unquarried or newly quarried stone

quarry² /kworˈi/

1. A hunted animal
2. A bird flown at by a hawk
3. A person or thing pursued
4. Prey
5. A victim
6. A hunter's heap of dead game
7. A deer's entrails given to the hounds (obsolete)
8. A hawk's reward for a kill (obsolete)
9. A heap of corpses (Shakespeare)
10. Found in some editions of Shakespeare's Macbeth (I.2.15) perhaps meaning slaughter, spoil

quarry³ /kworˈi/

1. A quarrel of glass
2. A square paving-tile or slab

quarry tile noun

A square unglazed floor tile

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