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▪ I. † ˈquarried, ppl. a.1 Obs. [f. quarry v.1] well-quarried, properly trained to fly at quarry.
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 154 Then shall you first cast off a well quarried or make Hawke, and let hir stoupe a fowle. ▪ II. ˈquarried, ppl. a.2 [f. quarry v.2 + -ed1.] a. Dug out of, or as out of, a quarry.
1747H. Brooke Fables, Female Seducers Wks. (1810) 414 He..Of pearl and quarry'd diamond dreams. 1855O. W. Holmes Poems 35 One leap of Ocean scatters on the sand The quarried bulwarks of the loosening land. b. Physical Geogr. Eroded or broken off by glacial quarrying; = plucked ppl. a. 4.
1909Jrnl. & Proc. R. Soc. N.S. Wales XLIII. 265 Moutonnées..if large..appeared to be abraded on the up slope, and heavily quarried on the downslope. 1930Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Survey No. 160. 90/2 Muir..described long trains of glacially quarried blocks which he had observed in the vicinity of Tenaya Lake. ▪ III. ˈquarried, a. [f. quarry n.3 + -ed2.] Of flooring: paved with quarries. Of a window: decorated with quarries.
1842G. Francis Dict. Arts s.v. Quarry, Quarried pavements are by no means uncommon in old village churches. 1856Geo. Eliot in Westm. Rev. X. 56 In those days, the quarried parlour was innocent of a carpet. 1954M. Rickert Painting in Brit.: Middle Ages 231 Quarried glass, window panels divided into squares or diamonds, each containing an ornamental or heraldic motif. |