0 a place, usually a very large hole in the ground, from which stone is got for building etc -- เหมืองระเบิดหิน; เหมืองเจาะหิน; บ่อหิน
a limestone quarry.
1 to dig (stone) in a quarry -- ทำเหมืองหิน
3 someone or something that is hunted, chased, or eagerly looked for. -- เหยื่อ
All four books bear witness to the fact that the comparative approach constitutes one of the richest quarries for the new historiography of religion.
Both the text and the extensive bibliography of primary sources will doubtless be quarried gratefully by other local and national historians.
Intermittently along the causeway, sections of sur face materials had collapsed, exposing subterranean lime quarries known as sascaberas.
Following the discovery of palynomorphs in fissure 2, further samples were routinely and regularly collected from all the fissures as they were quarried.
As work progressed, more and more quarries were opened.
Most gold diggers quarried gold ore with little knowledge of the condition of the soil they worked.
Furthermore, some trades were traditionally linked, painter/plumber/glazier, or shared agricultural origins + brick®elds, forests or quarries.
Except for the top quarried level that retained the original limestone surface, the vertical extents of the fissures are generally unknown due to earlier quarrying operations or unexcavated base levels.
