Crossword-Solution: APRON
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apron | n. | An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings. |
| Apron | n. | Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; |
| Apron | n. | The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. |
| Apron | n. | A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. |
| Apron | n. | A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon. |
| Apron | n. | A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel. |
| Apron | n. | A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut. |
| Apron | n. | A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent. |
| Apron | n. | The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer. |
| Apron | n. | A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing. |
| Apron | n. | The infolded abdomen of a crab. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| APRON | anagram | NOPAR, ONPAR, RAPON |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with APRON (5)
Lee hurried to wash out and iron her new cross-stitched apron, which she had finished only the night before; a checked gingham apron worked with a design ten inches broad across the bottom; a hunting scene, with fir trees and a stag and dogs and huntsmen.
The tent was divided into first and second-class compartments, and at the end of the first-class division was a yet further enclosure for the most exclusive, fenced off from the body of the tent by a luncheon-bar, behind which the host himself stood, bustling about in white apron and shirt-sleeves, and looking as if he had never lived anywhere but under canvas all his life.
Perceiving a flock of beach-birds that fed and fluttered along the shore, the naughty child picked up her apron full of pebbles, and, creeping from rock to rock after these small sea-fowl, displayed remarkable dexterity in pelting them.
Over this she buttoned a long apron, with sleeves, which would not be removed until she put on her cloak to go to school.
The boy didn’t like this speech, for it sounded like a threat; but he happened to remember he had nuts in his pocket, so he cracked some of those and ate them while the woman rose, shook the crumbs from her apron, and hung above the fire a small black kettle.
Quotes with APRON (3)
In Collegium it had been the fashion, while he had been resident there, to paint death as a grey-skinned, balding Beetle man in plain robes, perhaps with a doctor's bag but more often an artificer's toolstrip and apron, like the man who came in, at the close of the day, to put out the lamps and still the workings of the machines. Among his own people, death was a swift insect, gleaming black, its wings a blur - too fast to be outrun and too agile to be avoided, the unplumbed …
Live or die, but don't poison everything... Well, death's been herefor a long time --it has a hell of a lotto do with helland suspicion of the eyeand the religious objectsand how I mourned themwhen they were made obsceneby my dwarf-heart's doodle. The chief ingredientis mutilation. And mud, day after day, mud like a ritual, and the baby on the platter, cooked but still human, cooked also with little maggots, sewn onto it maybe by somebody's mother, the damn bitch! Even so, I …
Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English degree. Ha! I'd like to see her knock someone silly with an apron and a cookie press.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 511 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).