quarry
cantera
definition
verb
As part of these efforts, prisoners dug sand for mortar, quarried building stone and mortar lime, and manufactured more than 1.2 million bricks.
extract (stone or other materials) from a quarry.
noun
The materials extracted from the quarries - used widely in the local building industry - contained large quantities of fibrous amphiboles.
a place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted.
Moreover, hunting is not a natural encounter between predator and quarry because, unlike animals, humans are responsible for their actions.
an animal pursued by a hunter, hound, predatory mammal, or bird of prey.
translation of 'quarry'
verb
buscar información,
extraer,
explotar una cantera,
sacar por
noun
persona acorralada,
presa,
mina,
encarne,
cantera
example
In fact, Levin can spend years pursuing his 'quarry' , often Corporate America.
Immediately ahead is a narrow kitchen, which also has 'quarry' floor tiles.
It now appears that the description of someone jumping over the barriers could in fact have been of a police officer in pursuit of his 'quarry' .
Rangers also tried to swat McGeady, but found him an elusive 'quarry' .
By day he was working in a limestone 'quarry' , carrying buckets of stones on a yoke.
He said: ‘We are only importing material into the 'quarry' to restore it.’
He was a crack skier and mountaineer, whose strength had been built up breaking up stones in a limestone 'quarry' during the war.
The ethical basis of all field sports is the same, be it hunting, shooting or fishing, in each case the 'quarry' will be edible or a pest or perhaps, both.
The interconnecting breakfast room, also with 'quarry' floor tiling, is at the back of the house.
The owner objected that he was there first, indeed that stone from his 'quarry' had built the foundations of the houses.
They had the ability to remorselessly pursue their 'quarry' at a relentless pace, regardless of the mid-day sun.
We're off to chase down our 'quarry' so we can personally deliver his paid-for ticket to the Eastwood Rugby Club function centre this Saturday night.
The final gunshot strands the hunter and his 'quarry' on opposing sides of mortality.
This addition to weaponry technology could seek out its 'quarry' by detecting the heat traces produced by a person's body.
The overall aim of our work was to measure the size of the hunting economy and to see what would happen if hunting live 'quarry' with dogs were to be banned.
Hunters, unlike their 'quarry' , have been slow to adapt to the new conditions.
There is also a tiled splashback, 'quarry' floor tiles, and an integrated Delmore oven and hob with extractor fan.
Shown in cave paintings in France and Spain, these were a favourite 'quarry' of Palaeolithic hunters, and were eventually hunted to extinction.
Thus the bracketing of hull and basketwork trap also instils notions of the fisherman and his catch, the hunter and his 'quarry' , the slayer and the slain.
Almost absently, his attention focused on his 'quarry' , placing the glass on the table he stood, and made his way toward her.
Tarmac Northern Limted, which owns the 'quarry' near Helwith Bridge, is seeking planning permission to extend its workings to the west of the existing site.
Getting back to the task at hand, he scooped visible wreckage away, wary of the glass shards and smiled in triumph as he spotted his 'quarry' .
Although it has been over 40 years since developers first wanted to 'quarry' stone in the area, the sage of the superquarry began in 1991.
Three years after an Environment Court judge ordered a Pauatahanui 'quarry' closed its owners are seeking to reopen it.
Johnny will take a little ride to rehabilitate, not brutally punish, his 'quarry' , who is, as usual, a fellow Italian-American.
One North Dakota émigré actually ‘rode the hounds’ with wolves rather than foxes as his 'quarry' .
Any good detective knows his 'quarry' and his limits.
Thai troops are on alert along the border to prevent invasions due by troops in hot pursuit of their 'quarry' .
The haul road will be used to ferry materials from the 'quarry' to the beach for the construction of the breakwaters and related marine infrastructure.
But the author has kept his opening promise: His words have brought his elusive 'quarry' to heel.
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