Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Paved with quarries. See
quarry , n., 1 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Provided with prey.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
quarry . - adjective archaic Provided with
prey .
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Examples
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Zuma likes to say that his character was quarried from the landscape north of the Tugela River.
Jacob’s Ladder 2009
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Zuma likes to say that his character was quarried from the landscape north of the Tugela River.
Jacob’s Ladder 2009
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The stove was red and roaring hot, but only a bare three feet away lay a block of ice, as sharp-edged and dry as when first quarried from the creek bottom.
GRIT OF WOMEN 2010
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Many of the buildings are constructed of the pink stone quarried from the area.
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Many of the buildings are constructed of the pink stone quarried from the area.
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The stove was red and roaring hot, but only a bare three feet away lay a block of ice, as sharp-edged and dry as when first quarried from the creek bottom.
Grit of Women 1900
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Like all the rest in the town, it is built of white coral, quarried from the reefs outside.
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a block of ice, as sharp-edged and dry as when first quarried from the creek bottom.
Grit of Women 1901
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In these mines he "quarried," as Mr. Cabot says, for his lectures and essays.
Emerson and Other Essays John Jay Chapman 1897
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Shorty built the fire and quarried ice from the creek, while Smoke cooked breakfast.
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