| Title: | Quarrystone |
| Original Title: | Abatis |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 10 |
| Author: | Jacques-François Blondel (biography) |
| Translator: | Mark K. Jensen [Pacific Lutheran University] |
| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
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| Citation (MLA): | Blondel, Jacques-François. "Quarrystone." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.535>. Trans. of "Abatis," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Blondel, Jacques-François. "Quarrystone." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.535 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Abatis," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:10 (Paris, 1751). |
Quarrystone. This is what quarriers call stones they have cut in a quarry that are either good for building or that can be used as rubble stone. The word is also used for demolition and the debris from a building.