quarry

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A place, cavern, or pit where stones are dug from the earth, or separated, as by blasting with gunpowder, from a large mass of rock.
• To dig or take from a quarry: as, to quarry marble.
• Square; quadrate.
• Stout; fat; corpulent.
• noun A square or lozenge.
• noun A small square or lozenge-shaped pane of glass: same as quarrel, 1 .
• noun A bolt or arrow with a square head: same as quarrel, 2.
• To pave with quarries. See quarry, 1 .
• To prey, as a vulture or harpy.
• To provide with prey.
• noun The refuse parts of an animal slain in the chase, given in the skin to the hounds: as, to make the quarry (to open and skin the animal slain, and give the refuse to the hounds).
• noun A beast of the chase when pursued or slain; any creature hunted by men or by beasts or birds of prey, especially after it has been killed.
• noun Hunted or slaughtered game, or any object of eager pursuit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete Same as 1st quarrel.
• adjective obsolete Quadrate; square.
• intransitive verb To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
• noun A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
• noun A heap of game killed.
• noun The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
• noun A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th mine (a).
• transitive verb To dig or take from a quarry.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A diamond-shaped tile or pane, notably of glass or stone
• noun An animal which is hunted, notably mammal or bird.
• noun An object of search or pursuit.
• noun A site for mining stone, limestone or slate.
• verb transitive To obtain (mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
• verb figuratively (transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry
• noun a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
• noun a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
• noun animal hunted or caught for food