Crossword-Solution: COFFLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Coffle | n. | A gang of negro slaves being driven to market. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “COFFLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| SLAVE caravan | 1 answer |
| SLAVE-traveling/travelling group | 1 answer |
| Chain gang | 2 answers |
| caravan | 20 answers |
| cortege | 26 answers |
| convoy | 60 answers |
| Gang | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COFFLE (5)
Can all the art of the cannon-founder tempt matter to turn against its maker? Is the form in which the founder thinks he casts it more essential than the constitution of it and of himself? The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves.
All at once he fancied them actually manacled there together, two by two, a coffle of captives taken in some cruel foray, and driven to a market where no man wanted to buy.
How early did these files begin to form themselves for the midnight dole of bread? As early as ten, as nine o'clock? If so, did the fact argue habitual destitution, or merely habitual leisure? Did the slaves in the coffle make acquaintance, or remain strangers to one another, though they were closely neighbored night after night by their misery? Perhaps they joked away the weary hours of waiting; they must have their jokes.
How early did these files begin to form themselves for the midnight dole of bread? As early as ten, as nine o’clock? If so, did the fact argue habitual destitution, or merely habitual leisure? Did the slaves in the coffle make acquaintance, or remain strangers to one another, though they were closely neighbored night after night by their misery? Perhaps they joked away the weary hours of waiting; they must have their jokes.
Eliphalet had reflected upon this incident after he had bid the overseer good-by at Cairo, and had seen that pitiful coffle piled aboard a steamer for New Orleans.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).