Quarry (disambiguation)

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A quarry is a type of mine, usually open-cast, generally for the extraction of stone or fossil fuel.

Quarry or Quarries may also refer to:

• The target of a chase, especially during a hunt; see Game (food)

Stained glass

• Quarry, a small piece of square or diamond-shaped glass set diagonally in a stained glass window

Places

• Quarries (biblical), limestone quarries beneath ancient Jerusalem
• Quarries Reach, a reach of the Brisane River, Queensland, Australia
• Quarry, County Westmeath, a townland in Mullingar civil parish, Ireland
• Quarry, Newfoundland and Labrador, an abandoned railway community in Newfoundland
• Quarry, Texas, a community in Texas
• The Quarry (park), the main park of Shrewsbury, England
• The Quarry at La Quinta, a golf course in California

Books

• The Quarry (Iain Banks novel), the last novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks
• Suspicion (Friedrich Dürrenmatt novel), Der Verdacht, a 1951 crime novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which was also published as The Quarry 1962
• The Quarry (Damon Galgut novel), a novel by the South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut 2006.
• Q is for quarry, by Sue Grafton 2002.
• The quarry, by Mildred Walker 1947
• Quarry, by Bill Pronzini 2004.
• Quarry, novel and audiobook by Bill Pronzini
• Quarry (Ally Kennen novel), a novel by Ally Kennen
• Quarry, a series of novels by Max Allan Collins
• The Quarry (Charles W. Chesnutt novel), a novel by the African American writer Charles W. Chestnutt, published posthumously

Film and Television

• "Quarry" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Quarry (TV series), a TV series based on Max Allan Collins' novels

Companies

• Quarry (company), a marketing communications and advertising agency headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario

See also

• All pages beginning with "quarry"
• All pages with titles containing quarry
• Quarrel (disambiguation)
• Query (disambiguation)