A square; as a quarry of glass.

An arrow with a square head.

In falconry, the game which a hawk is pursuing or has killed.

Among hunters, a part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.

A place, cavern or pit where stones are dug from the earth, or separated from a large mass of rocks. We generally apply the word mine to the pit from which are taken metals and coal; from quarries are taken stones for building, as marble, freestone, slate.

In Paris, the quarries are a vast cavern under the city, several miles in extent.

To prey upon, as a vulture or harpy.

To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.