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• n  a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
• n  a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
  a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'
• n  animal hunted or caught for food
• v  extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry
  quarry marble

• Last summer Alfred began to prowl the quarry with Joe Geiler and Mike Bandrowski, who had joined the project just a few months before.
• William Griffith Wilson grew up in a quarry town in Vermont.
• And one of the most quintessential is the Dorset Quarry.

• prey
• target
• fair game
• pit
• stone pit

News & Articles

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• Jose Gonzales, 49, dies in industrial accident at Cupertino-area quarry
  A worker at a Cupertino area quarry died Thursday afternoon in an apparent industrial accident involving a vehicle, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. Cal-OSHA investigators have been told by the Sheriff’s Office that Gonzales may have been behind the wheel of a tractor when its brakes failed.
  June 14, 2013 - San Jose Mercury News
• Vote on quarry delayed as suit limits comments in Bernards Township
  BERNARDS TWP. – Although the township’s Environmental Commission is opposing the Planning Board’s recommendations for the Millington Quarry rehabilitation plan, the stance has yet to draw an official
  June 14, 2013 - The Bernardsville News
• National labor board orders Wrightstown quarry to stop unfair labor practices
  The National Labor Relations Board has ordered Hanson Aggregates BMC Inc., which runs a quarry in Penn’s Park in Wrightstown, to stop penalizing employees for engaging in union activity.
  June 14, 2013 - Bucks County Courier Times

Quotes

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• Sammy Wilson in Belfast Telegraph
  It's a sentiment he expresses through the art of the subtle sneer when he talks of Australia's economy becoming nothing more than China's quarry and Japan's beach, as if mining was somehow sub-par and not sufficiently knowledge-based for Mr Rudd's... John Howard http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFDkwfWMg8IAUPTl_zgAMfcDWHY9A Milton Ulladulla Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://milton.yourguide.com.au/news/breaking/general/pm-wants-a-nation-of-opportunity/1082752.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGAeI_skJ4wRbEObb0TJqqtv6fMTw Nov 7, 2007 79495 107134 quarry Speaking ahead of a visit to Magheramorne Quarry this morning, Mr Wilson said: This is an imaginative and unique opportunity for Northern Ireland that will reuse what has become a redundant quarry and replace it with a major tourist attraction....
• Michael Russell in Environmental Data Interactive
  Sadly, the quarry from which this fabulous material comes has closed for economic reasons, so the only additional specimens that are going to appear now are items that are already in collectors' hands and that may not have been fully prepared or... Derek Briggs http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Briggs&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEptSd08XAW7zhrtjMuTcOvxDMOtw Science Daily (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205142145.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEwMSyFehq3_SOekJHkL5c57LTY_g Feb 5, 2009 79497 107135 quarrying Speaking at the reserve, Mr Russell said: The Community Environmental Renewal Scheme is designed to help communities across Scotland living in the vicinity of quarrying activity to boost their quality of life through restoring their local...