Crossword-Solution: ABB
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abb | n. | Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ABB | anagram | BAB, BBA |
We have 14 clues for the answer “ABB”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fleece remnants. | 1 answer |
| Monastery man: Abbr. | 1 answer |
| Monastery: Abbr. | 1 answer |
| Mother Superior: Abbr. | 1 answer |
| The yarn for the warp. | 1 answer |
| Warp yarn | 1 answer |
| Yarn for the warp. | 1 answer |
| Yarn for warp. | 1 answer |
| Yarn of the warp, in weaving. | 1 answer |
| woof | 8 answers |
| Coarse wool | 12 answers |
| Wool | 33 answers |
| Yarn | 44 answers |
| Fleece | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ABB (5)
Will you honour me, Monsieur l’Abbé?” He stood close to Chauvelin in his own careless, _débonnaire_ way, holding out his snuff-box to his arch-enemy.
For six months war was waged with various fortune in the leading articles of the Geographical Institution of Brazil, the Royal Academy of Science of Berlin, the British Association, the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, in the discussions of the “Indian Archipelago,” of the Cosmos of the Abbé Moigno, in the Mittheilungen of Petermann, in the scientific chronicles of the great journals of France and other countries.
You know one of the Catholic ministers—an abbé, is that it?—I have seen him here, you know; that motherly old gentleman with the big waistband.
MANON LESCAUT by Abbé Prévost I Why did he love her? Curious fool, be still! Is human love the fruit of human will? BYRON.
The monstrous rocks, etc., says the Abbé ‘sont admirées avec surprise des voyageurs qui s’écrient aussitôt avec Horace: Ut mihi devio rupee et vacuum nemus mirari libet.’ The good man is not exactly lyrical in his praise; and you see how he sets his back against Horace as against a trusty oak.
Quotes with ABB (3)
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past ("en me retraçant ces détails, j'en suis à me demander s'ils sont réels, ou bien si je les ai rêvés"). As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.
In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten years or more, the man of letters (restored to his loftiest dignity) can happily write out of pure love of writing.
I was known for being quite... ruthless at ABB. I drove hard targets, pushed my people. But I was always fair. Once I was convinced of someone, I let them handle things themselves. But if you kept doing badly, there was no place for you.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1945–1993).