Словарь синонимов английского языка - quarry

(n) prey, game, prize, object: The hunter's dogs had run their quarry to ground. Wealthy widows were regarded as fair quarry by the swindlers. (n) 1. mine, pit, excavation: Only one quarry yielded the statuary marble needed by those sculptors. -(v) 2. mine, extract, obtain, get: Gault's ideas were all auarried from the jottings of obscure writers.