- A hunted animal; prey.猎物：被猎取的动物；猎物
- Hunted animals considered as a group; game.被猎食者：一群被认为应捕杀的动物；猎物
- An object of pursuit:追捕目标：The police lost their quarry in the crowd.在人群中警察迷失了跟踪目标
- Middle English querre [entrails of a deer given to hounds as a reward] 中古英语 querre [给猎狗作为奖赏的鹿的内脏]
- from Old French cuiriee 源自 古法语 cuiriee
- alteration influenced by cuir [skin] 受 cuir的影响 [皮肤]
- of coree coree的变化
- from Vulgar Latin *corāta [viscera] 源自 俗拉丁语 *corāta [内脏]
- from Latin cor [heart] * see kerd- 源自 拉丁语 cor [心脏] * 参见 kerd-
quarry
- An open excavation or pit from which stone is obtained by digging, cutting, or blasting.采石场：通过挖掘、切割或爆破岩石来获取石料的露天坑道或洞
- A rich or productive source:丰富或多产的资源：found the book an indispensable quarry of information.发现此书是一个必不可少的信息宝库
- To obtain (stone) from a quarry, as by cutting, digging, or blasting.采石：如通过挖掘、切割或爆破从采石场获取（石料）
- To extract (facts, for example) by long, careful searching:采集，获取：通过长期仔细的调查获取（如事实）：finally quarried out the genealogy from hundreds of sources.终于从上百份原始资料中发现了家谱
- To use (land) as a quarry.用（土地）作为采石场
- Middle English quarey 中古英语 quarey
- from Medieval Latin quareria, quareia 源自 中世纪拉丁语 quareria, quareia
- alteration of Old French quarriere 古法语 quarriere的变化
- from *quarre [cut stone] 源自 *quarre [切割石块]
- from Latin quadrum [square] * see k wetwer- 源自 拉丁语 quadrum [正方形] * 参见 k wetwer-
quarry
- A square or diamond shape.正方形或菱形
- A pane of glass having this shape.正方形窗格，菱形窗格：具有这种形状的窗格玻璃
- Variant of quarrel 2 quarrel2的变体