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Delf :: Delf (n.) A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch.

Quarry :: Quarry (n.) The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks..

Openwork :: Openwork (n.) A quarry; an open cut.

Overburden :: Overburden (n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.

Quarry-man :: Quarry-man (n.) A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.

Trussing :: Trussing (n.) The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air..

Jumper :: Jumper (n.) A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.

Scapple :: Scapple (v. t.) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry..

Quarry :: Quarry (n.) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds..

Quarry :: Quarry (v. t.) To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble..

Rubble :: Rubble (n.) Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash..

Pitch-faced :: Pitch-faced (a.) Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced..

Quarrying :: Quarrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quarr.

Quarry :: Quarry (n.) A heap of game killed.

Quarry :: Quarry (n.) Same as 1st Quarrel.

Quarry :: Quarry (a.) Quadrate; square.

Heugh :: Heugh (n.) A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.

Quar :: Quar (n.) A quarry.

Quarrier :: Quarrier (n.) A worker in a stone quarry.

Quarry :: Quarry (v. i.) To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy..

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