quarrying
Meaning of quarrying
verb
- To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
- To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.
verb
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
noun
A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.
Information about quarrying
- The plural form of quarrying is: quarryings.
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Hyphenation of quarrying
quar-ry-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- quarrying is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
quarrying synonyms
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Words that rhyme with quarrying
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