Quarry

Tamil Meaning

கட்டிடக் கற்கள் வெட்டி எடுக்கப்படும் இடம்

English Meaning

  1. A hunted animal; prey.
  2. Hunted animals considered as a group; game.
  3. An object of pursuit: The police lost their quarry in the crowd.
  4. An open excavation or pit from which stone is obtained by digging, cutting, or blasting.
  5. A rich or productive source: found the book an indispensable quarry of information.
  6. To obtain (stone) from a quarry, as by cutting, digging, or blasting.
  7. To extract (facts, for example) by long, careful searching: finally quarried out the genealogy from hundreds of sources.
  8. To use (land) as a quarry.
  9. A square or diamond shape.
  10. A pane of glass having this shape.