Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Breaking up in cuboidal masses, as rocks in various quarries.
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Examples
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Are you sure it's not "querry" or, more appropriate most time, "queery"
MONDAY 2009
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If you have a queery, please send it to queeries@live.com.
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It seems strange that CNN or CNBC or FOX hasn't at least mentioned this as a queery.
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'Till groggy and queery, straight-forwards the rig;
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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"Dominie, a queery thing happened in the kirk this day, sic as --"
The Little Minister 1898
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Betty used to ask; 'only twal an' sixpence, an 'your wages is fourteen shillings -- forbye your chance frae mourners for happen the corp up quick' -- then ye hummer an 'ha', an 'try to think on the lee ye made up on the road doon; but it's a gye queery thing that ye canna mind o't.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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I hain't got no more at spresent, so I'll send yeou a queery instead.
Two Suffolk Friends Francis Hindes Groome 1876
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I axed our skule-master, "What's a queery?" and he saa, "Suffen {43a} queer," so I think I can sute yeou here.
Two Suffolk Friends Francis Hindes Groome 1876
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"What cheer, my lad!" he cried, and his presence there, roused the boy at once; "feel a bit queery?"
The Little Skipper A Son of a Sailor George Manville Fenn 1870
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"Dominie, a queery thing happened in the kirk this day, sic as --"
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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