Difference between quarrying-quarry and quarry

quarry

Definitions

verb

  1. extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry

noun

  1. animal hunted or caught for food
  2. a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
  3. a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence

Examples

The film features quarrymen actually employed at Dorothea Quarry at the time of filming, some of whom have been identified and their recollections of the filming noted.

The nature reserve is covered with quarry pits, grooves, and mines resulting from Roman and later workings.

At Laufen (Oflag VII-C) and later at Eichstätt (Oflag VII-B—close to the limestone quarry where the first archaeopteryx remains had been found), he watched birds that came through the camp wire to breed.

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