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Stone Quarry Hill Art Park — is a public, outdoor art park located in Cazenovia, New York. It consists of 108 acres (44 ha) of land and over four miles of hiking trails. Founded by Dorothy and Robert Riester, it became an official venue in 1991 and is one of the first art… … Wikipedia
Stone Quarry Mills, Indiana — Infobox Settlement official name = Stone Quarry Mills, Indiana nickname = mapsize = pushpin map caption = Location in the state of Indiana subdivision type = Country subdivision name = United States subdivision type1 = State subdivision name1 =… … Wikipedia
Doulting Stone Quarry — grid reference ST648436 is a limestone quarry at Doulting, on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. At Present there are only three quarries in the country quarrying Doulting stone. The Largest has been producing stone since Roman times.[1] Until… … Wikipedia
Ozark Southern Stone quarry — The Ozark Southern Stone quarry is a quarry located in Elk Ranch, Arkansas, rich in dolomite limestone. External links http://www.lovelycitizen.com/story/1465017.html Categories: Geography of Carroll County, ArkansasQuarries in the United… … Wikipedia
Quarry — For other uses, see Quarry (disambiguation). A quarry is a type of open pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone, construction aggregate, riprap,… … Wikipedia
quarry — I n. prey 1) to stalk one s quarry 2) to bring one s quarry to bay 3) hunted quarry II n. open excavation 1) to work a quarry 2) an abandoned quarry 3) a marble; stone quarry * * * [ kwɒrɪ] stone quarry [ op … Combinatory dictionary
stone-pit — n. Quarry, stone bed, stone quarry … New dictionary of synonyms
quarry — quar‧ry [ˈkwɒri ǁ ˈkwɔː , ˈkwɑː ] noun quarries PLURALFORM [countable] a place where large amounts of stone, sand etc are dug out of the ground: • a granite quarry quarry verb [transitive] : • granite that is quarried in Brazil * * * Ⅰ … Financial and business terms
quarry — from which stone is extracted [15] and quarry which one hunts [14] are quite different words. The former was borrowed from Old French quarriere, a derivative of *quarre ‘square stone’. This went back to Latin quadrum ‘square’, which was based on… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
quarry — Ⅰ. quarry [1] ► NOUN (pl. quarries) ▪ an open excavation in the earth s surface from which stone or other materials are extracted. ► VERB (quarries, quarried) 1) extract from a quarry. 2) cut into (rock or ground) to obtain … English terms dictionary
