- quarry of slate
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English-Chinese dictionary of mining (英汉矿业大词典). 2013.
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Slate waggon — Slate wagons (sometimes spelled waggons) are specialized types railroad cars designed for the conveyance of slate. The characteristics of this stone led to the development of small open cars that carried the slate in its various forms. These were … Wikipedia
quarry — quar‧ry [ˈkwɒri ǁ ˈkwɔː , ˈkwɑː ] noun quarries PLURALFORM [countable] a place where large amounts of stone, sand etc are dug out of the ground: • a granite quarry quarry verb [transitive] : • granite that is quarried in Brazil * * * Ⅰ … Financial and business terms
quarry — quarry1 [kwôr′ē, kwär′ē] n. pl. quarries [var. of QUARREL1] a square or diamond shaped piece of glass, tile, etc. quarry2 [kwôr′ē, kwär′ē] n. pl. quarries [ME querre, orig., parts of the prey put on the hide and fed to dogs < OFr cuiree,… … English World dictionary
Slate industry in Wales — The slate industry in Wales began during the Roman period when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon. The slate industry grew slowly until the early 18th century, then expanded rapidly until the late 19th century, at which… … Wikipedia
Slate industry — The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate. Slate is either quarried from a slate quarry or reached by tunneling in a slate mine . Common uses for slate include as a roofing material, a flooring material… … Wikipedia
Quarry — For other uses, see Quarry (disambiguation). A quarry is a type of open pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone, construction aggregate, riprap,… … Wikipedia
Slate Operations on the WHR — The original Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) owed its existence to the the narrow gauge railways/tramways built to serve commercial slate traffic from Slate Quarries and other mineral extraction operations.* Croesor Tramway, this was built to take… … Wikipedia
quarry — quarry1 quarriable, quarryable, adj. /kwawr ee, kwor ee/, n., pl. quarries, v., quarried, quarrying. n. 1. an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc. 2. an… … Universalium
quarry — quar|ry1 [ˈkwɔri US ˈkwo: , ˈkwa: ] n plural quarries [Sense: 1; Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: quarriere, from an unrecorded quarre square stone , from Latin quadrum square ] [Sense: 2; Date: 1400 1500; : Old French; Origin: cuiree… … Dictionary of contemporary English
quarry — I UK [ˈkwɒrɪ] / US [ˈkwɔrɪ] noun Word forms quarry : singular quarry plural quarries 1) [countable] a place where stone is dug out of the ground. A place where coal or minerals are dug out of the ground is called a mine a slate/limestone quarry… … English dictionary
quarry — I. noun (plural quarries) Etymology: Middle English quirre, querre entrails of game given to the hounds, from Anglo French cureie, quereie, from quir, cuir skin, hide (on which the entrails were placed), from Latin corium more at cuirass Date:… … New Collegiate Dictionary
