Usually means: Extraction of materials from earth.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. quarrying: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quarrying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quarrying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. quarrying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Quarrying, quarrying: Wordnik
  6. quarrying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. quarrying: Wiktionary
  8. Quarrying, quarrying: Dictionary.com
  9. quarrying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Quarrying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Quarrying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. quarrying: Rhymezone
  13. Quarrying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. quarrying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. quarrying: Free Dictionary
  16. quarrying: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. quarrying: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quarrying: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quarrying: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quarrying: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. QUARRYING: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See quarry as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (quarrying)

noun:  The extraction of material from a quarry.
noun:  A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.

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