English Dictionary

quarry

/ˈkwɒɹ.i/

verb

(transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry. / (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

The workers quarry the stone from the mountains.

意味（1）

(transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.

The incloſing of this country might alſo be effected, were the landlord to quarry the ſtones, and build the walls at his expence, and the tenant to carry the materials, and pay intereſt for the money advanced by the landlord.

意味（2）

(figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.