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quarrying

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of quarry

noun quarryings

  1. countable, uncountable The extraction of material from a quarry. In 1765 only 80 men were employed, and the annual output of slates did not exceed 1,000 tons, and large-scale quarrying was not begun by Lord Penrhyn until 1782.
  2. countable, uncountable A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.

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@misc{quarrying_2026,
  title = {quarrying},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/quarrying},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}