quarrying

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Verb

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quarrying

  1. present participle and gerund of quarry

Noun

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quarrying (countable and uncountable, plural quarryings)

  1. The extraction of material from a quarry.
    • 1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
      In 1765 only 80 men were employed, and the annual output of slates did not exceed 1,000 tons, and large-scale quarrying was not begun by Lord Penrhyn until 1782.
  2. A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.