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Quarry

noun

A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence. Synonyms: fair game, prey, target. "Everyone was fair game" , "The target of a manhunt"

A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate. Synonyms: pit, stone pit.

Animal hunted or caught for food. Synonym: prey.

verb

(past & past part. quarried; pres. part. quarrying)

Extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry.

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"Quarry" Quotes from Famous Books

... bolt to throw in a new cartridge, but did not shift his position. In less remote countries the sportsman, unlimited in ammunition but restricted in chances, would probably have pumped in four or five shots until the quarry was down. The traveller and Simba watched closely, with expert eyes, to determine whether a precious second cartridge should ...

— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al

... (racket). On the right hand side of this room there is tier upon tier of box work; looking to the left, you shudder at the almost bottomless pit just beside the pathway. Here we take a rest preparatory to climbing up to the Marble Quarry, a task of two flights of stairs. This is a very large room and has the most uneven floor, ceiling and walls of any that our visitors see, and is barren of specimens excepting in the first part over the stairs where there is some box work of very ...

— Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills • Luella Agnes Owen

... disaster that enabled the remnants of the once invincible army to keep up their exhausting flight. As they neared Appomattox Court House, however, the blue battalions were closing in on them from every side like a pack of hounds in full cry of a long-hunted quarry and escape ...

— On the Trail of Grant and Lee • Frederick Trevor Hill

... sand so hot to his palms, beckoned her face, the love light in her eyes, weaving the spell. Then the coyote had bounded into the air, and the red-combed Desert condors, the scavengers of an outcast world, rose from their quarry; and Wayland, fevered, delirious, laughing, crying, kneeled over the body of a man lying on his face with his bloody hand clutched in death grip round an upright post driven into the alkali bottoms, a post with a drinking cup hung on the notched crotch, the Desert sign ...

— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut

... forget that wan glare of sunlight that had come along the plateau where the deer were quietly feeding?—he seemed to see again each individual blade of grass close to his face, as well as the noble quarry that had held him breathless. And then he took out the bright little coin; surely Honnor Cunyngham could not object to his wearing it, seeing that it had proved itself such a potent charm? He rejoiced that he had not been frightened off his expedition ...

— Prince Fortunatus • William Black

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