quarry
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈkwɔri/
- The workers were busy extracting stone from the quarry for the new building project.
- a stone quarry
- a gravel quarry
- a marble quarry
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Watch on YouTubeAnd that was a rock quarry up in Angels Camp, CA.
- And that was a rock quarry up in Angels Camp, CA.
- I've been working in the Sun Quarry, Sun mine, for four years now.
- Now at the top of my town, there's a quarry overlooking, it's a hill, Pecks Hill quarry, and there's trees around the rim.
- You know, whether it's a quarry worker who has to or a quarry company that has to install precision machining.
- Malone and Dale Wright used to find quarries, sheds, you know, he has to fight.
Examples
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Outside of town, a previously abandoned limestone quarry lies nestled between two hills.
Fiction book (1993) -
Now at the top of my town, there's a quarry overlooking, it's a hill, Pecks Hill quarry, and there's trees around the rim.
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Maybe I can take you for a walk down to the quarry after breakfast.
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If the quarry were opened up again, sir, everyone would benefit.
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Ride the north road to the quarry.
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Now that is in the quarry where these stones came from.
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When she reached the quarry, she sat for twenty minutes on a stone wall.
Fiction book (1990) -
And that was a rock quarry up in Angels Camp, CA.
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The Georgia Tech team showed that the quarry pit alone would provide sufficient water for operations.
Academic text (1999) -
The walk to the quarry was now uphill, and Annabel felt it in her legs.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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3.6
A large hole in the ground used for mining
40
3.9
A place where people remove earth to find old objects
22
2.8
A place underground where people dig coal
8
5.4
A hole in the ground made by digging, often for building or finding old things
4
3.6
A hole in the ground where people dig gravel for building
3
8.1
A place where people dig to find old objects or valuable stones
1
8.4
An area where people dig for minerals or ancient objects
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6.4
A part of a mine or quarry where people dig for minerals
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5.8
A place where people remove minerals from the ground now or in the past
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6.8
A large hole in the ground where people dig out chalk
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4.9
A large open hole in the ground where people take stone for building
A hole dug in the ground to get stone or clay
A pit where people dig chalk from the ground
How Big
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4.9
183
3.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quarry for the place where stone is dug comes from an old French word for a 'pit' or area for cutting rock, so the word names the open hole where builders take stone.