Crossword-Solution: BLOWHOLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blowhole | n. | A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity. |
| Blowhole | n. | A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean. |
| Blowhole | n. | A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe. |
| Blowhole | n. | An air hole in a casting. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “BLOWHOLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Main opening? | 1 answer |
| Whale's breather | 1 answer |
| the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull | 1 answer |
| BREATHING orifice | 2 answers |
| Nostrils | 2 answers |
| VENT of whale | 2 answers |
| WHALE, vent of | 2 answers |
| Whale's nostril | 2 answers |
| spiracle | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BLOWHOLE (5)
The swell crowded into the narrow anchorage like sheep into a fold; broke all along both sides, high on the one, low on the other; kept a certain blowhole sounding and smoking like a cannon; and spent itself at last upon the beach.
Amid a terrific peal of thunder, the long pent-up rain descended, and a sudden ghastly rending asunder of the clouds showed far below them the heaving ocean, high above them the jagged and glistening rocks, and at their feet the black and murderous abyss of the Blowhole--empty.
The shock of the waves soon enlarges this to a blowhole, which one may find on the breezy upland, perhaps a hundred yards and more back from the cliff's edge.
The whistle head is furnished with a cavity containing air, which, shaped by a narrow groove, strikes against the sharp edge and excites vibration in the conical pipe, on the same principle that an organ pipe is made to sound, or of the action of the player's mouth and lips upon the blowhole of the flute.
The flute has likewise the complete series, because through the blowhole it is a pipe open at both ends.
Quotes with BLOWHOLE (1)
Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever spilt a man’s blood killed his own mana - his honor, his worth, his standing & his soul. No Moriori would shelter, feed, converse with, or even see the persona non grata. If the ostracized murderer survived his first winter, the desperation of solitude usually drove him to a blowhole on Cape Young, where he took his life. Con…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NY Sun.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2003).