Usually means: Site for extracting stone, minerals.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. quarry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quarry: Merriam-Webster
  3. quarry, quarry, quarry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quarry, quarry, quarry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quarry: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quarry: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quarry, quarry: Wordnik
  8. quarry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quarry: Wiktionary
  10. quarry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quarry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quarry: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Quarry, quarry: Dictionary.com
  14. quarry (1), quarry (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. quarry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Quarry (TV series), Quarry (disambiguation), Quarry (prey), Quarry, The Quarry (Iain Banks novel), The Quarry (film), The Quarry (park), The Quarry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Quarry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. quarry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. quarry: Rhymezone
  20. quarry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. quarry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Quarry, Quarry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. quarry: FreeDictionary.org
  24. quarry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. quarry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. quarry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quarry: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Quarry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quarry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quarry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Quarry: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quarry: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

(Note: See quarried as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
verb:  (transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
verb:  (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
noun:  (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
noun:  (countable) An object of search or pursuit.
verb:  To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
noun:  A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.

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