Emily Dickinson Lexicon

QUAR'RY, n. [Fr. carré, for quarré; Arm. id. See Quarantine.]

1. A square; as, a quarry of glass. [Not in use.] – Mortimer.
2. An arrow with a square head. [See Quarrel. Not in use.] – Fairfax.
3. In falconry, the game which a hawk is pursuing or has killed. [Perhaps from L. quæro, Fr. querir, to seek.]
4. Among hunters, a part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds. – Encyc.