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noun
A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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noun
A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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noun
An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
An object of search or pursuit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
animal hunted or caught for food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: prey
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Broader terms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
noun
a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pit, stone pit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: excavation
Narrower terms: chalkpit, chalk pit, gravel pit
noun
a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: prey, target, fair game
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Broader terms: victim
verb
extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: exploit, tap
History
From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“to square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kwetwóres (“four”).
From Middle English quyrre, querre, quirre, from Anglo-Norman quiree (“entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward”) (influenced by cuir (“skin (of an animal)”), from Latin corium (“a hide”)), from coree (“entrails, viscera”), from Vulgar Latin corata (“entrails”), from Latin cor (“heart”).
Alteration of quarrel (“diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window; square tile”).
Across languages
153 source translations are retained for this English entry.
