Crossword-Solution: CHERT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chert | n. | An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CHERT | anagram | RECHT, RETCH |
We have 17 clues for the answer “CHERT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dull-colored flintlike quartz. | 1 answer |
| Rock like flint | 1 answer |
| Rock found in limestone beds | 1 answer |
| ROCK, flint like | 1 answer |
| Flintlock rock | 1 answer |
| Flintlike quartz. | 1 answer |
| Flint-like rock. | 1 answer |
| Fine-grained silica | 1 answer |
| PILLOW lava, sedimentary material of | 3 answers |
| Fine-grained rock | 4 answers |
| Dark rock | 5 answers |
| Kind of quartz | 6 answers |
| A LIGHT FLINTLOCK MUSKET | 10 answers |
| Chalcedony | 11 answers |
| flint | 12 answers |
| Quartz | 24 answers |
| Rock-___. | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHERT (5)
Thus it was that we first saw the city of the Dweller; blessed and accursed as no place on earth, or under or above earth has ever been--or, that force willing which some call God, ever again shall be! "Chert!" whispered Marakinoff.
The uneven floor was covered to a thickness of 4 or 5 feet with a deposit of mud, sparingly intermixed with rounded fragments of chert.
Although this chert could not have been brittle as now, when first folded into this shape, it presents, nevertheless, here and there, at the points of greatest flexure, small cracks, which show that it was solid, and not wholly incapable of breaking at the period of its displacement.
Thick beds of chert occur in the Middle Purbeck filled with mollusca and cyprides of the genera already enumerated, in a beautiful state of preservation, often converted into chalcedony.
Corals are rare in this formation, although one species is found plentifully at Tisbury, Wiltshire, in the Portland Sand, converted into flint and chert, the original calcareous matter being replaced by silex (Fig.
Quotes with CHERT (1)
I pace the shallow sea, walking the time between, reflecting on the type of fossil I’d like to be. I guess I’d like my bones to be replaced by some vivid chert, a red ulna or radius, or maybe preserved as the track of some lug-soled creature locked in the sandstone- how did it walk, what did it eat, and did it love sunshine?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1962–2011).