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单词 quarry
释义

quarry1 /kworˈi/

noun
  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)
transitive verb (quarrˈying; quarrˈied)
  1. To dig from, or as from, a quarry
  2. To cut into or cut away
  3. To extract (information) from a source
ORIGIN: LL quareia, for quadrāria, from L quadrāre to square

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/

noun
  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
ORIGIN: OFr cuiree, curee, said to be from cuir, from L corium a hide

quarry3 /kworˈi/

noun
  1. A quarrel of glass
  2. A square paving-tile or slab
ORIGIN: A form of quarrel2; or perh from OFr quarré, from L quadrātus squared

quarry tile noun

A square unglazed floor tile

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