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QUAR'RY, n.

1. A square; as a quarry of glass. [Not in use.]

2. An arrow with a square head. [See Quarrel. Not in use.]

3. In falconry, the game which a hawk is pursuing or has killed. [Perhaps from L. quaero.]

4. Among hunters, a part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.

QUAR'RY, n. [I know not whether the original sense of this word was a pit or mine, from digging, or whether the sense was a place for squaring stone. L. curro. If the sense was a pit, it may be referred to the Heb.]

1. A place, cavern or pit where stones are dug from the earth, or separated from a large mass of rocks. We generally apply the word mine to the pit from which are taken metals and coal; from quarries are taken stones for building, as marble, freestone, slate, &c.

2. In Paris, the quarries are a vast cavern under the city, several miles in extent.

QUAR'RY, v.i. To prey upon, as a vulture or harpy. [A low word and not much used.]

QUAR'RY, v.t. To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.

1913 Definition
Quarry (quarry)
n.(?)
Quar"ry
[OE. quarre, OF. quarré] square, F. carré, from L. quadratus square, quadrate, quadratum a square. See Quadrate, and cf. Quarrel an arrow.]
  1. Same as 1st Quarrel.
    [Obs.] Fairfax.
  2. Quadrate; square.
    [Obs.]
  3. A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
    (b)
  4. The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
    "The stone- dead quarry." Spenser.

    The wily quarry shunned the shock. Sir W. Scott.

  5. To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
    L'Estrange.
  6. A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).
  7. To dig or take from a quarry] as, to quarry marble.
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