Synonyms:
quarry
Meaning: extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry; "quarry marble"
Usage examples
They are very quiet when they are stalking their quarry."
The rear of the entrenchment, being protected by the quarry, was left open.
The axe-heads glittered in their rhythmic flight, like fierce eagles circling about their quarry.
Lord Percy to the quarry went, To view the tender deere; Quoth he, "Erle Douglas promised This day to meet me heere;
He is used to these desperate rallies, which always become fiercer and more violent as the quarry is on the point of giving in.
So, after one grand farewell volley, we fled, sliding, jumping, rolling, tumbling down the quarry at the rear of the fort, and escaped without losing a man.
Without springs or snares, she lies in ambush, among the flowers, and awaits the arrival of the quarry, which she kills by administering a scientific stab in the neck.
It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high-grade ore.
They all ran at her to take her as their quarry, but she escaped from them and, throwing herself into the waves,"--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
The moon was over Ajalon when these two hunters, after all the perils of the long, black road, marched up into the dooryard, bearing on a pole between them their quarry, well suspended by the gambrels.