127. Quarry. The animal hunted; another technical term. Shakespeare uses it in the sense of a heap of slaughtered game; as in Cor. i. 1. 202: "Would the nobility lay aside their ruth, And let me use my sword, I'd make a quarry With thousands of these quarter'd slaves," etc. Cf. Longfellow, Hiawatha: "Seldom stoops the soaring vulture O'er his quarry in the desert."
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