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.
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   2. The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game;
      especially, the game hunted with hawks. "The stone-dead
      quarry." --Spenser.
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            The wily quarry shunned the shock.    --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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Quarries
   (1.) The "Royal Quarries" (not found in Scripture) is the name
   given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern
   hill, Bezetha, on which Jerusalem is built. Out of these mammoth
   caverns stones, a hard lime-stone, have been quarried in ancient
   times for the buildings in the city, and for the temples of
   Solomon, Zerubbabel, and Herod. Huge blocks of stone are still
   found in these caves bearing the marks of pick and chisel. The
   general appearance of the whole suggests to the explorer the
   idea that the Phoenician quarrymen have just suspended their
   work. The supposition that the polished blocks of stone for
   Solomon's temple were sent by Hiram from Lebanon or Tyre is not
   supported by any evidence (comp. 1 Kings 5:8). Hiram sent masons
   and stone-squarers to Jerusalem to assist Solomon's workmen in
   their great undertaking, but did not send stones to Jerusalem,
   where, indeed, they were not needed, as these royal quarries
   abundantly testify.
   
     (2.) The "quarries" (Heb. pesilim) by Gilgal (Judg. 3:19),
   from which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his
   design to put Eglon king of Moab to death, were probably the
   "graven images" (as the word is rendered by the LXX. and the
   Vulgate and in the marg. A.V. and R.V.), or the idol temples the
   Moabites had erected at Gilgal, where the children of Israel
   first encamped after crossing the Jordan. The Hebrew word is
   rendered "graven images" in Deut. 7:25, and is not elsewhere
   translated "quarries."