资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Quarry \Quar"ry\, n.; pl. {Quarries}. [OE. querre, OF.
   cuiri['e]e, F. cur['e]e, fr. cuir hide, leather, fr. L.
   corium; the quarry given to the dogs being wrapped in the
   akin of the beast. See {Cuirass}.]
   1.
      (a) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to
          the hounds.
      (b) A heap of game killed.

   2. The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game;
      especially, the game hunted with hawks. ``The stone-dead
      quarry.'' --Spenser.

            The wily quarry shunned the shock.    --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.