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quarryings

quarryings is the plural of quarrying.

Meaning of quarrying

Noun

quarrying (countable and uncountable, plural quarryings)

  1. The extraction of material from a quarry.
    • 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 1782.1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138
  2. A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.

Questions about quarryings

What is quarryings the plural of?
Quarryings is the plural of quarrying.

Words near quarryings in the dictionary

  1. quarry tiles
  2. quarry water
  3. quarry-faced
  4. quarryable
  5. quarrying
  6. quarryings
  7. quarrylike
  8. quarryman
  9. quarrymaster
  10. quarrymasters
  11. quarrymen

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