abbrev. of QUARRY sb.1 Obs.

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1562.  Phaër, Æneid, IX. E e ij. What murthring quarres of men, what heapes downe throwne,… king Turnus then did giue.

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1605.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iii. III. (Lawe), 643. The Falcon … shall strike; And with the stroke make on the sense-less ground The gut-less Quar … re-bound.

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