Meaning

noun a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence

noun a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate

noun animal hunted or caught for food

originFrom Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“to square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0