Crossword-Solution: BILLOW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Billow | n. | A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. |
| Billow | n. | A great wave or flood of anything. |
| Billow | v. i. | To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “BILLOW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bulge out like sail | 1 answer |
| Surge or swell | 1 answer |
| Swell in the wind | 1 answer |
| Puff up in the wind, as a sail | 1 answer |
| Puff up in the breeze | 1 answer |
| Fill with air, as a sail | 1 answer |
| Cloud surge | 1 answer |
| Swell of an undulating mass | 1 answer |
| Swell with air | 1 answer |
| Swell, as a cloud | 1 answer |
| great wave | 1 answer |
| large sea wave | 1 answer |
| move with great difficulty | 1 answer |
| Swell out | 2 answers |
| SWEEP along as if in waves (fig.) | 2 answers |
| Puff out | 3 answers |
| Sea swell. | 3 answers |
| move in waves | 3 answers |
| whitecap | 8 answers |
| large wave | 9 answers |
| sound out | 10 answers |
| Undulate | 11 answers |
| Surge | 31 answers |
| Ripple | 39 answers |
| BALLOON ___ | 46 answers |
| MOVE sinuously | 49 answers |
| swelling | 53 answers |
| Sweep | 66 answers |
| Swell | 66 answers |
| Mist | 74 answers |
| wave | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
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greedy person
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Sentences with BILLOW (5)
Then is a deep note heard, a long-drawn hum, As when the chill South through the forests sighs, As when the troubled ocean hoarsely booms With back-swung billow, as ravening tide of fire Surges, shut fast within the furnace-walls.
But by the end of the first quarter of the present century, the great poetical billow, which was not indeed caused by, but received an impulse from, the great political billow, the French Revolution (for they were cognate or co-radical movements), had quite spent itself, and English poetry was at a comparatively low ebb.
The sea or waves appeared to be ten or fifteen feet in height of unbroken water, and every approaching billow seemed as if it would overwhelm our vessel, but she continued to rise upon the waves and to fall between the seas in a very wonderful manner.
The imps of the river yell and rave; They had no power above the wave, But they heaved the billow before the prow, And they dashed the surge against her side, And they struck her keel with jerk and blow, Till the gunwale bent to the rocking tide.
What did he, clubman and college man, in that hideous trouble that wrought itself out there on that heat-stricken tropic beach under that morning's sun? Suddenly there was a flash of red flame, and a billow of thick, yellow smoke filled all the air.
Quotes with BILLOW (3)
In the evenings the family gathered at Kirkwood Hall. Sometimes Andrew cooked, sometimes Delphine. There was a bounty of vegetables from the kitchen garden: tiny patty-pan squash, radishes both peppery and sweet, beets striped deep magenta and white, golden and green, butter lettuce and spinach and peas, zucchini blossoms stuffed with Graham's mozzarella and salty anchovies. Delphine whipped eggs from the chickens into souffles. Chicken- from the chickens, sadly- were roasted…
I'm comming to You. You are blazing. I'm giving You a rose. It embalms sweet. I'm givin a kiss... I melt of You. I melt and flow with You. Like an ice in a spring river. I melt and stay. Sun will vaporise us. It will take us up into clouds. And then we both will fall. Drop by drop. We'll fall out of the sky. We'll raise from dew to fog. Every sunny warm morning. We'll let the wind pull us with him. Cooling our selves in forest shadows. There in silence we'll cool off One from…
Wisteria hangs over the eaves like clumps of ghostly grapes. Euphorbia's pale blooms billow like sea froth. Blood grass twists upward, knifing the air, while underground its roots go berserk, goosing everything in their path. A magnolia, impatient with vulvic flesh, erupts in front of the living room window. The recovering terrorist--holding a watering can filled with equal parts fish fertilizer and water, paisley gloves right up over her freckled forearms, a straw hat with i…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1967–2020).