English Dictionary

quarry

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkwɒɹ.i/

名詞

廃用 不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward. / (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.

日本語の意味

1. 猟犬へのご褒美として渡される、狩猟された動物の内臓の一部（古い用法）。 / 2. 狩猟対象となる動物、特に鳥類や哺乳類を指す。

After the fox was brought down, the keeper saved some quarry as a reward for the hounds.

キツネが仕留められた後、番人は猟犬へのご褒美としてそのキツネの内臓の一部を取っておいた。

意味（1）

(uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.

Quarry, among hunters, is ſometimes uſed for part of the viſcera of the beaſt taken; given by way of reward to the hounds.]

意味（2）

(uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.

Is it not our very Caſe now, that when our Souls, Good-Names, Bodies and Fortunes are at Stake, we muſt be running out at Check, after every Crow, Buzzard, or Jack-daw that comes in the way, and leave the main Chance at laſt at Six and Seven? Nay, and here's this more in't too, that the Quarry would not be worth the taking up neither, if we could Catch it; beſide, that it flies away ſtill before us, and is never to be Overtaken.

意味（3）

(countable) An object of search or pursuit.

In a verſe, when a worde of three ſillables cannot thruſt in but ſidelings, to joynt him even, we are oftentimes faine to borrowe ſome leſſer quarry of elocution from the Latine, alwaies retaining this for a principle, that a leake of indeſinence , as a leake in a ſhip, muſt needly be ſtopt with what matter ſoever.

quarries （ plural ）