quarrying
English edit
Verb edit
quarrying
- present participle and gerund of quarry
Noun edit
quarrying (countable and uncountable, plural quarryings)
- The extraction of material from a quarry.
- 1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
- In 1765 only 80 men were employed, and the annual output of slates did not exceed 1,000 tons, and large-scale quarrying was not begun by Lord Penrhyn until 1782.
- A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.