quarry
意味
- (狩猟の)獲物
- (一般に)追求されるもの,攻撃の的
- 石切り場
- 〈石〉を切り出す
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“to square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).