Crossword-Solution: CHERTY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cherty | a. | Like chert; containing chert; flinty. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “CHERTY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Containing a flintlike rock | 1 answer |
| Like some hard soils | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with CHERTY (5)
Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a felspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine.
The lower beds were here more jaspery than usual, and they included some white cherty strata and red sandstones, alternating with purple claystone porphyry.
Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine.
Does any reader wish for proof of this? Let him examine the "cherty," or flinty, beds which so often appear where the bottom of the millstone grit is passing into the top of the mountain limestone--the beds, to give an instance, which are now quarried on the top of the Halkin Mountain in Flintshire, for chert, which is sent to Staffordshire to be ground down for the manufacture of china.
Small round cherty boulders, frequently used in chipping for flints, but in this instance they seem to have been used as hammers.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1990–2004).