quarry
noun
an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
quarriable
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a word derived from
quarry.
Example Sentences
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This limestone tract, with its keen fresh air, everywhere arable surface, and quarriable banks above well-watered meadow, is the real country of the French.
From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin
