noun

• (mining) A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
  "Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara."

verb

• (transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
  "The incloſing of this country might alſo be effected, were the landlord to quarry the ſtones, and build the walls at his expence, and the tenant to carry the materials, and pay intereſt for the money advanced by the landlord."
• (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
  "They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri."

noun

• (uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
  "Quarry, among hunters, is ſometimes uſed for part of the viſcera of the beaſt taken; given by way of reward to the hounds."
• (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
  "Is it not our very Caſe now, that when our Souls, Good-Names, Bodies and Fortunes are at Stake, we muſt be running out at Check, after every Crow, Buzzard, or Jack-daw that comes in the way, and leave the main Chance at laſt at Six and Seven? Nay, and here's this more in't too, that the Quarry would not be worth the taking up neither, if we could Catch it; beſide, that it flies away ſtill before us, and is never to be Overtaken."
• (countable) An object of search or pursuit.
  "In a verſe, when a worde of three ſillables cannot thruſt in but ſidelings, to joynt him even, we are oftentimes faine to borrowe ſome leſſer quarry of elocution from the Latine, alwaies retaining this for a principle, that a leake of indeſinence , as a leake in a ſhip, muſt needly be ſtopt with what matter ſoever."