Quarrying is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUARRYING in dictionary:

VERB:
• extract (stone or other materials) from a quarry
• cut into (rock or ground) to obtain stone or other materials
NOUN:
• the act of quarrying
• a place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted
• an animal pursued by a hunter, hound, predatory mammal, or bird of prey
• a thing or person that is chased or sought
• a diamond-shaped pane of glass as used in lattice windows
• the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to dig stone from an excavation

Words related to QUARRYING

quarried18 quarries17 quarry18 quarryings23

Words that contain QUARRYING

quarryings23

How to use QUARRYING in a sentence

• Part of the valley, if not the whole of it, has been formed by quarrying away the crags of marble and conglomerate limestone for building the city.
• Well, then, after quarrying and selecting the blocks which he deemed sufficient, he had them brought to the sea, and left a man of his to ship them off.
• Michelangelo, having been sounded on the subject, chose to go on quarrying at Carrara rather than to take those belonging to the State of Florence.
• The better part of the years between 1516 and 1520 was spent in quarrying marble at Carrara, Pietra Santa, and Seravezza.
• When the town begins to rise, and substantial buildings are required, the blocks of stone procured by quarrying this entrance will go far towards paying the expense of excavation.
• The inhabitants make their living by quarrying millstones on the river banks, which they work up and take to Babylon and sell, purchasing corn in exchange for their goods.
• The present writer numbered all the inscriptions in white paint and marked out quarrying concessions, while several watchmen were set to guard these important relics.
• And perhaps we, of the present time, are merely occupied in quarrying the enormous blocks which later on some mighty genius will employ in the building of a glorious edifice.
• Quarrying was unusual labor for an Israelite and the name carried terror with it.
• The British empire gives occupation to more than one-third of the persons employed in mining and quarrying in the world.
• Stone quarrying has been expensive and wasteful heretofore.
• The production of rice, sugar, and cotton, is no better adapted to slave-labor than the digging, washing, and quarrying of the gold-mines.
• The principal industries are cotton-weaving, worsted-making, iron-founding, coal-mining, quarrying, brick-burning and the making of sanitary wares.
• Neither the one nor the other was true, because he had from Julius for the Tomb only one thousand ducats, spent in those months of quarrying marble at Carrara.
• The only industry was rough work like quarrying stone, logging and the like.
• The vale is sufficiently romantic to make it a favourite trysting-place with the neighbouring townsfolk, but it is being rapidly ruined by extensive quarrying operations.
• Quarrying operations had been in progress at Kirkdale for some time when the mouth of the cave was suddenly laid bare by pure accident.

Similar words containing QUARRY without suffix ing

quarry18 quarryman23 quarrymen23 quarryings23 quarrymaster26 quarrymasters27

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