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quarry

English

  1. 🔊 animal hunted or caught for food
  2. 🔊 a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
    “a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'”
  3. 🔊 a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
    “he fell prey to muggers”
  4. 🔊 extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry
    “quarry marble”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cantera quarry
  2. 🔊 pedrera quarry

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