quarried's Usage Examples:

Sandstone, of which the total production in 1905 was 1,142,135 tons valued at £320,761, is quarried in nearly every county, but the industry flourishes particularly in the shires of Lanark, Dumfries, Ayr and Forfar.

The Fox Island granite comes from the quarries on Vinalhaven Island and the surrounding islands, and on Vinalhaven were quarried monolithic columns 51.

The lightest of the monumental stone quarried at Quincy is called gold-leaf; it is bluish-green gray, speckled with black and light yellow brown.

) from which, in ancient and modern times, an immense quantity of the finest marble has been quarried; on the north-west by Parnes (4636 ft.

Sandstones and quartzites were also quarried in 1902 in Albany, Crook and Uinta counties.

In all cases the bricks have been made, the stone quarried and dressed, the timber sawn, the iron cast, forged and wrought by the prisoners.

Many of the older buildings are of a brown sandstone, quarried in or near the city.

Rich antimony and calamine mines are worked by a French undertaking, and good marble is quarried by an Italian company.

end of the temple is the fountain Glauce cut out of a cube of rock, apparently left standing when the material for the temple was quarried around it.

In the middle ages there was a communism in learning, but if Rashi used some of the stones quarried and drafted by others, it was to his genius that the finished edifice was due.

High quality millstones called querns were quarried for use in watermills.

Ironstone and roofing slates are quarried, and there is some industry in agatepolishing and the manufacture of trinkets.

Synonyms:

excavation, stone pit, gravel pit, chalk pit, chalkpit, pit,

Antonyms:

ride, deposit, natural object, Heaven,