I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
quarry tile
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
disused
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They looked down into the big disused quarry .
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In a disused limestone quarry we tackled one of these obstacles safely, once we had been told how to do it.
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Head west on it to Dancing Ledge - a disused cliff quarry .
old
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This museum will feature information boards and relics recovered from the old quarry .
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Cars may be parked in an old quarry near the railway bridge.
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Inquest opens: An inquest opened yesterday on two teenagers who died in an old quarry pond.
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The castle, built on the site of an old quarry , has cost just under £2million.
■ NOUN
slate
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It depended for its prosperity on the local slate quarries and when these ran into trouble so did the railway.
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The giant slate quarries and tips of waste rock at Llanberis and Bethesda are great scars on the landscape.
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We then cycled uphill to the town of Rosebush with its deserted slate quarries .
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Many Lake District slate quarries are still working, but of course modern roads and vehicles make the job much less dangerous now.
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Both slate quarries are open daily April to October, 100.00 a.m. -5.30 p.m.
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From directly above them came a noise like an explosion in a slate quarry .
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Activity in the slate quarries continues with a mightily impressive new route at Hodge Close from Paul Cornforth.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The hunter closed in on his quarry .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After that, I just stayed out at the quarries.
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Carrara's alps of marble could not match the limestone quarries near Wenlock Edge for sheer potential.
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He'd spent days up on the cliff behind the quarry , watching them take off.
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It did so by contrasting the answers from two workers who were busily wielding sledgehammers in a rock quarry .
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Maggie likes to walk in the Red Deeps, a forested abandoned quarry , and Phillip Wakem encounters her there one afternoon.
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The alternatives were either to make a massive quarry or to mine into the fell.
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There was a truck parked in front of the quarry .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The Romans did not quarry the most accessible stones.