quarries

• beasts
• brutes
• burrows
• chases
• claws
• creatures
• critters
• delves
• digs
• digs in
• dredges
• excavates
• games
• grubs
• kills
• mines
• prey
• preys
• scoops
• shovels
• spades
• targets
• victims

• carnivores
• chasers
• hunters
• killers
• murderers
• predators
• pursuers

• noun
  1. A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
  2. A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
  3. An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
  4. An object of search or pursuit.
  5. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
• verb
  1. To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
  2. To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
  3. To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

• The workers in the nearby quarries extracted high-quality stones for the construction project.
• Environmental regulations were put in place to minimize the impact of quarries on local ecosystems.
• The region is known for its abundance of limestone quarries that supply materials for various industries.
• The machinery in the quarries roared to life as the extraction process began.
• The geologists studied the geological formations around the quarries to understand the stone composition.

kills

delves

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