What is the name meaning of QUARRY. Phrases containing QUARRY
See name meanings and uses of QUARRY!QUARRY
QUARRY
Surname or Lastname
English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : habitational name from a place in Staffordshire, recorded as Bidolf in Domesday Book, from Old English bī ‘beside’ + dylf ‘digging’ (a putative derivative of delfan ‘to dig’), i.e. a mine or quarry.
Surname or Lastname
Irish and Manx
Irish and Manx : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Guaire (see McQuarrie).English (of Norman origin) : nickname for a thickset or portly man, from Anglo-Norman French quaré ‘square’. Compare Carré (see Carre).English : from Middle English quarey ‘quarry’, a topographic name for someone who lived near a stone quarry, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in one.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English
Brown Fortress; Brown Hills with Stones; From the Brown Rock Quarry
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a worker in a quarry, from Middle English stone ‘stone’ + an agent derivative of breken ‘to break’.Translation of German Steinbrecher or the Dutch equivalent, Steenbreker.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English delf ‘excavation’, ‘digging’ (Old English (ge)delf), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or quarry, a metonymic occupational name for a ditch-cutter or quarryman, or alternatively a habitational name from any of various places named with this word, as for example Delf in Kent and Delph in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) and Yorkshire.
Surname or Lastname
Irish (Ulster)
Irish (Ulster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÃr, meaning ‘long-lasting’. In Ireland this name is found in County Armagh; it has also long been established in Scotland.Irish : Anglicized form of Ó hAichir ‘descendant of Aichear’, a personal name derived from the epithet aichear ‘fierce’, ‘sharp’. In Ireland this name is more commonly Anglicized as O’Hehir.English : nickname for a swift runner (possibly a speedy messenger) or a timorous person, from Middle English hare ‘hare’. However, the surname Ayer and its variants was sometimes recorded as Hare.English : topographic name from an Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’, ‘tumulus’.French : according to Morlet, an occupational name for a huntsman, from a medieval French call used to urge on the hounds, or, in the form Haré, from the past participle of harer ‘to excite, stir up (hounds in pursuit of a quarry)’.
Surname or Lastname
French and English
French and English : occupational name for a quarryman, from Old
French perrier, an agent derivative of pierre ‘stone’,
‘rock’.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pear
tree, from Middle English perie ‘pear tree’ + the suffix
-er, denoting an inhabitant.A Perrier, also called
Surname or Lastname
English and southern French
English and southern French : from Middle English, Old French car(r)ier (Late Latin carrarius, a derivative of carrum ‘cart’, ‘wagon’, of Gaulish origin); in English an occupational name for someone who transported goods, in French for a cartwright.French : occupational name for a stonemason or quarryman, carrier.
Surname or Lastname
Variant of French Dufort.English
Variant of French Dufort.English : apparently a habitational name, perhaps from Dulford in Broadhembury, Devon, which is named from an unattested Old English word dylfet ‘pit’, ‘quarry’.
QUARRY
QUARRY
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Wish
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Sun
Girl/Female
Biblical
The moon, whiteness, frankincense.
Boy/Male
Indian
Strong, Prosperity population, A prophets name
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Ray of Holy Light
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Drinking
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Doing Virtuous Deeds
Boy/Male
Tamil
Maheswar | மஹேஷà¯à®µà®°
Lord Shiva, God Shankar
Girl/Female
Indian
Brightness, Radiant, Splendor
Boy/Male
Muslim
Distinguished person
QUARRY
QUARRY
QUARRY
QUARRY
QUARRY
a.
Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.
a.
Quadrate; square.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Quarry
pl.
of Quarry-man
n.
A quarry; an open cut.
n.
A heap of game killed.
imp. & p. p.
of Quarry
n.
A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
v. t.
To set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.
n.
Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
v. t.
To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
n.
Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.
v. i.
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
n.
The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.
n.
A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.
n.
The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
n.
A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.
pl.
of Quarry
v. t.
To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
n.
A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).