QUARRY
/ĖkwÉɹi/
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Definition
/ĖkwÉɹi/
noun
- A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.“Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.”
verb
- To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
- To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.“They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.”
Source: Wiktionary
