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Definition of Quarrying
1. Noun. The extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry.
Definition of Quarrying
1. Verb. (present participle of quarry) ¹
2. Noun. A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quarrying
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarrying
Literary usage of Quarrying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1922)
"It will be convenient to divide this subject, according to classes of raw material
and methods employed into (1) quarrying for limestone or cement rock; ..."
2. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture, Properties, and Uses by Adelbert Philo Mills (1915)
"Methods of quarrying. After the exposure of rock by the stripping of the surface
soil the quarrying is done by hand tools, by machine tools, ..."
3. The Resources of California by John Shertzer Hittell (1867)
"Sometimes the gold from the lode penetrates a little way into the foot-wall, and
in that case the quarrying must extend beyond the vein-stone. ..."
4. Materials of Construction by Harry E. Pulver (1922)
"Machine Methods of quarrying.—Machine methods include the use of machines ...
Explosives Used in quarrying.—Explosives may be used instead of plugs and ..."
5. Rock Excavation: Methods and Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1904)
"An effective way of making "boulders" is by large chamber blasting, where the
amount of stone required warrants quarrying on such a ..."
6. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"quarrying, Crushing and Screening Broken Stone In Breaking Field Stone preparatory to
... In quarrying Ledge Stone, HAND DRILLING is slow and somewhat more ..."
7. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"quarrying, Crushing and Screening Broken Stone In Breaking Field Stone preparatory In
... In quarrying Ledge Stone, HAND DRILLING is slow and somewhat more ..."
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