quarry1
/ˈkwɒri
/- The materials extracted from the quarries - used widely in the local building industry - contained large quantities of fibrous amphiboles.
- He was a crack skier and mountaineer, whose strength had been built up breaking up stones in a limestone quarry during the war.
- The operators want to dig deeper seams within the quarry - up to 15 metres below the existing level.
- As part of these efforts, prisoners dug sand for mortar, quarried building stone and mortar lime, and manufactured more than 1.2 million bricks.
- Lime was quarried in Rockland and shipped by rail to distant points, but this was an industry in decline.
- Glass can be recycled indefinitely, helping the environment by reducing the amount of raw materials being quarried from the countryside, saving energy and helping to reduce global warming.
- At a significantly later date the rock dome was quarried, and some of the phase 1 carvings were broken through.
- These volumes have been quarried by historians for decades for ‘shocking truths’ of ‘intolerable conditions’ of filth and depravity in early industrial towns.
- The scar created by quarrying the hillside is visible from a wide area, but working of the scar face is now completed and progress is being made below the level of surrounding land.
Derivatives
quarrier
- This included over £2,000 on materials, together with the wages of the 450 masons, 375 quarriers, and 1,800 other workmen employed, plus payment of the garrison.
- Both bedding planes and joints are planes of weakness exploited by quarriers, and control the maximum block size that can be obtained from a stratum.
- At its peak it employed 50 quarriers but it went into decline in the 1940s.
Origin
Middle English: from a variant of medieval Latin quareria, from Old French quarriere, based on Latin quadrum 'a square'. The verb dates from the late 18th century.
The quarry that yields stone comes ultimately from Latin quadrum ‘a square’. This is based on the idea that a quarry is a place where stones are squared, or cut into regular shapes, to make them ready for use in building. The other quarry, ‘a pursued animal’, is from Old French cuiree and based on Latin cor ‘heart’ (see cordial). In medieval deer-hunting the term referred to the deer's entrails, which were placed on the hide and given as a reward to the hounds. It could also be used to refer to a heap of deer carcasses piled up after a hunt, and so to a pile of dead bodies: ‘Then went they in haste to the quarry of the dead, but by no means could find the body of the King’ (John Speed, The History of Great Britain, 1611).
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quarry2
/ˈkwɒri/- Moreover, hunting is not a natural encounter between predator and quarry because, unlike animals, humans are responsible for their actions.
- Secondly, a fox is not a recognised quarry for a bird of prey.
- Yet, that's about how long falconry - the sport of flying birds of prey at wild quarry - has been around.
- We're off to chase down our quarry so we can personally deliver his paid-for ticket to the Eastwood Rugby Club function centre this Saturday night.
- This addition to weaponry technology could seek out its quarry by detecting the heat traces produced by a person's body.
- It now appears that the description of someone jumping over the barriers could in fact have been of a police officer in pursuit of his quarry.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French cuiree, alteration, influenced by cuir 'leather' and curer 'clean, disembowel', of couree, based on Latin cor 'heart'. Originally the term denoted the parts of a deer that were placed on the hide and given as a reward to the hounds.
quarry3
/ˈkwɒri/- Amongst fragments set into the background of a fifteenth-century panel depicting St Mary Magdalen in the east chancel window are quarries with fragments of the Lovell rebus.
- The surviving 17th-century windows are all of wood with quarries of hand-blown glass in lead cames attached to iron saddle-bars.
- The window quarries have been replaced by plate glass.
- Only 'first quality' quarries can be used externally without risk of delamination.
- A staircase of red quarries led up to the second story.
Origin
Mid 16th century (in (sense 2)): alteration of quarrel2, which in late Middle English denoted a lattice windowpane.
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