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 Quar·ry, n.; pl. Quarries
 1. (a) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds. (b) A heap of game killed.
 2. The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks. “The stone-dead quarry.”
    The wily quarry shunned the shock.   --Sir W. Scott.

 Quarries
    (1.) The "Royal Quarries" (not found in Scripture) is the name
    given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern
    hill, Bezetha, on which Jerusalem is built. Out of these mammoth
    caverns stones, a hard lime-stone, have been quarried in ancient
    times for the buildings in the city, and for the temples of
    Solomon, Zerubbabel, and Herod. Huge blocks of stone are still
    found in these caves bearing the marks of pick and chisel. The
    general appearance of the whole suggests to the explorer the
    idea that the Phoenician quarrymen have just suspended their
    work. The supposition that the polished blocks of stone for
    Solomon's temple were sent by Hiram from Lebanon or Tyre is not
    supported by any evidence (comp. 1 Kings 5:8). Hiram sent masons
    and stone-squarers to Jerusalem to assist Solomon's workmen in
    their great undertaking, but did not send stones to Jerusalem,
    where, indeed, they were not needed, as these royal quarries
    abundantly testify.
      (2.) The "quarries" (Heb. pesilim) by Gilgal (Judg. 3:19),
    from which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his
    design to put Eglon king of Moab to death, were probably the
    "graven images" (as the word is rendered by the LXX. and the
    Vulgate and in the marg. A.V. and R.V.), or the idol temples the
    Moabites had erected at Gilgal, where the children of Israel
    first encamped after crossing the Jordan. The Hebrew word is
    rendered "graven images" in Deut. 7:25, and is not elsewhere
    translated "quarries."