What does quarry mean in hunting?

Asked by: Ben Lexis

Definition of quarry (Entry 1 of 4) 1 : game specifically : game hunted with hawks. 2 : one that is sought or pursued : prey.

How do you use quarry in a sentence?

Quarry sentence example

1. I went skinny dipping in the quarry where I’d been told not to go. …
2. There is a large limestone quarry within the borough limits. …
3. The same quarry produces both kinds, and indeed the same block is sometimes half red and half white.

What does schlep mean in Yiddish?

to drag, haul, lug

The verb comes from the German sleppen, adopted with that meaning in the Yiddish schlepn or schlep, meaning “to drag, haul, lug.” “In Yiddish, the verb shlep is standard,” the lexicographer Sol Steinmetz, who spells the verb without the c, informs me, “with the literal meaning of ‘a pull, drag or jerk.