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   Quarries
   small panes of glass, usually diamond shaped, held in lead strips. The diamond shape had the advantage of using virtually all of the glass in the sheet, and is more robust than square or rectangular panes which set up horizontal lines of weakness which leads to bulging. A quarry tile is ...
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   Quarries
   In describing windows, quarries are small rectangular or diamond-shaped panes of obscure glass, set in cames to form a whole window, or part of a window. Related Words: Cames
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   Quarries
   • (pl. ) of Quarry
   Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/quarries/
   
   
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   Quarries
   [biblical] Quarries - (1.) The "Royal Quarries" (see Zedekiah`s Cave) — not found in Scripture — is the name given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern hill, Bezetha, on which Jerusalem is built. Out of these mammoth caverns stones, a hard limestone, have been quarr...
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