adjective
definition
Provided with quarry or prey.
verb
definition
To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
definition
To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
example
They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.
verb
definition
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
Examples of quarried in a Sentence
Granite and limestone are quarried in the vicinity.
Many of the older buildings are of a brown sandstone, quarried in or near the city.
Limestone quarried in the same year was worth $124,690; and sandstone was valued at $39,216.
As quarried or mined free sulphur is always contaminated with limestone, gypsum, clay, &c.; the principle underlying its extraction from these impurities is one of simple liquation, i.e.
A thriving export trade is carried on in agricultural produce, condensed milk is manufactured, and slate is extensively quarried in the neighbourhood, while some coal is exported from the neighbouring fields.
The first marble quarry was opened in Dorset in 1785 and a second at Middlebury in 1805; and the first granite was quarried in 1812.
Marble is quarried; and at El Torcal, 6 m.
For such purposes, as also for use as mirrors, masks and labrets, it was extensively employed, under the name, of itztli, by the ancient Mexicans, who quarried it at the Cerro de las Navajas, or "Hill of Knives," near Timapan.
In the neighbourhood granite of a fine quality is quarried, and the town possesses rope and sail works, breweries, distilleries, flour-mills and tanneries.
In France and Germany the method of filling the space left by the removal of the coal with waste rock, quarried underground or sent down from the surface, which was originally used in connexion with the working of thick inclined seams by the method of horizontal slices, is now largely extended to long-wall workings on thin seams, and in Westphalia is made compulsory where workings extend below surface buildings, and safety pillars of unwrought coal are found to be insufficient.
Beds and nodules of chert are abundant in the upper parts of the limestone; at Bakewell it is quarried for use in the Potteries.
Limestone is quarried at Buxton, Millersdale and Matlock for lime, fluxing and chemical purposes.
Topography And Antiquities The Attic plain, -ro ircSlov, slopes gently towards the coast of the Saronic Gulf on the south-west; on the east it is overlooked by Mount Hymettus (3369 ft.); on the north-east by Pentelicus or Brilessus (3635 ft.) from which, in ancient and modern times, an immense quantity of the finest marble has been quarried; on the north-west by Parnes (4636 ft.), a continuation of the Boeotian Cithaeron, and on the west by Aegaleus (1532 ft.), which descends abruptly to the bay of Salamis.
The stony tufa (tufa litoide) is quarried as building-stone.
It was in these coast mountains of Algeria that the Romans quarried the celebrated Numidian marbles.
Marble of very fine quality and grain is extensively quarried and exported for architectural ornamentation and for furniture-making.
Most of the houses are built of white stone quarried in the neighbourhood.
The material (limestone) was quarried on the spot.
The south wall of Epipolae, considerable remains of which exist, shows traces of different periods in its construction, and was probably often restored.2 It is built of rectangular blocks of limestone generally quarried on the spot, about 53 ft.
In this neighbourhood excellent building-stone is quarried, which was used for the foundations of the Houses of Parliament in London, and is despatched to all parts of England.
Gudea was also a great builder, and the materials for his buildings and statues were brought from all parts of western Asia, cedar wood from the Amanus mountains, quarried stones from Lebanon, copper from northern Arabia, gold and precious stones from the desert between Palestine and Egypt, dolerite from Magan (the Sinaitic peninsula) and timber from Dilmun in the Persian Gulf.
Pietra forte of the Cretaceous period is quarried north and south of the city, and has been used for centuries as paving stone and for the buildings.
Pietra serena or macigno, a stone of a firm texture also used for building purposes, is quarried at Monte Ceceri below Fiesole.
It lies in a hilly district rich in coal and iron, while a hard basaltic intrusion known as Rowley rag is largely quarried.
Here the traveller ascending from the coast sees the first example of the jebel or highland towns, with their high three-storeyed houses, built of quarried stone, their narrow façades pierced with small windows with whitewashed borders and ornamented with varied arabesque patterns; each dar has the appearance of a small castle complete in itself, and the general effect is rather that of a cluster of separate forts than of a town occupied by a united community.
The mountain is quarried, and from 1267 onward supplied stone (trachyte) for the building of Cologne cathedral.
One of the chief products is building-stone, which is quarried by the Chinese.
Granite is quarried in the peninsula.
Near Tiverton and Cranston graphite has been quarried.
Granite is quarried in the neighbourhood and there is an extensive trade in grain.
Ennis has breweries, distilleries and extensive flour-mills; and in the neighbourhood limestone is quarried.
Mines of iron are worked, and various sorts of stone are quarried.
Limestones and sandstone are also profitably quarried, the value of the product in 1908 being $530,945 for limestone and $2337 for sandstone.
Salt is quarried on government account at Kalabagh and alum is largely obtained in the same neighbourhood.
The lightest of the monumental stone quarried at Quincy is called gold-leaf; it is bluish-green gray, speckled with black and light yellow brown.
The state ranked fifth in 1906 in the total value of stone quarried ($4,333,616), and eighth in 1908 ($ 2, 955, 1 95).
The tribes quarried by means of crowbars and picks of wood and bone.
A little slate is quarried, being taken from the rocks below the church, and exported in the small vessels which can visit Tintagel Haven in calm weather.
The manufactures include paraffin, paper, glass, chemicals, flour and whisky, and freestone is quarried.
On Christmas Island the phosphate has been quarried to depths of 100 ft.
Three distinct varieties of sandstone are quarried extensively.
The value of all sandstones quarried in 1908 was $1,774,843, an amount exceeded by no other state.
From an extensive deposit of blue-black magnesian limestone at Glens Falls are taken the choicest varieties of black marble quarried in the United States.
The marble quarried in 1908 was valued at $706,858.
Some light grey sandstone found in Rocky Canon, Gallatin county, looks much like the Berea (Ohio) sandstone; and a sandstone quarried at Columbus, Yellowstone county, was manufactured into grindstones equal to those made from the Berea stone.
Yellowveined black marble, known as Portoro, and building-stone are quarried here and in the fortified island of Palmaria to the east of Portovenere.
Slate rocks are quarried both above ground and below ground, according as they lie near to or distant from the surface.
When the rock is much removed from the surface, or inconveniently situated for open workings, it is quarried in underground chambers reached by levels driven through the intervening mass and across or along the beds.
The Maryland building stone, of which there is an abundance of good quality, consists chiefly of granites, limestones, slate, marble and sandstones, the greater part of which is quarried in the east section of the Piedmont Plateau especially in Cecil county, though some limestones, including those from which hydraulic cement is manufactured, and some sandstones are obtained from the western part of the Piedmont Plateau and the east section of the Appalachian region; the value of stone quarried in the state in 1907 was $1,439,355, of which $1,183,753 was the value of granite, $142,825 that of limestone, $98,918 that of marble, and $13,859 that of sandstone.
In 1907 the total value of limestone quarried in the state was $891,500, and of all stone, $1,002,450.