Crossword-Solution: COLLET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Collet | - | An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte. |
| Collet | n. | A small collar or neckband. |
| Collet | n. | A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill. |
| Collet | n. | The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set. |
| Collet | n. | The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “COLLET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Socket for setting a gem | 1 answer |
| Enclosing rim for a jewel | 1 answer |
| Enclosing rim in which a jewel is set | 1 answer |
| Gem-setting flange | 1 answer |
| Metal band or ring. | 1 answer |
| Rim in which a gem is set | 1 answer |
| culet | 2 answers |
| SPINDLE part | 2 answers |
| Setting for a diamond. | 2 answers |
| ferrule | 3 answers |
| Jewelry setting | 3 answers |
| Metal band. | 3 answers |
| socket | 9 answers |
| AN ENCLOSING FRAMEWORK ON CASTERS OR WHEELS | 10 answers |
| Flange. | 10 answers |
| A CONE-SHAPED CHUCK USED FOR HOLDING CYLINDRICAL PIECES IN A LATHE | 11 answers |
| Ring ___ | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COLLET (5)
Now the shepherds met together, according to custom, that they might send their monthly report about the flocks to the king; into their assembly he came having the ring on his finger, and as he was sitting among them he chanced to turn the collet of the ring inside his hand, when instantly he became invisible to the rest of the company and they began to speak of him as if he were no longer present.
Are there to be no more “old ladies”? Will the next generation have to look back when the word “grandmother” is mentioned, to a stylish vision in Parisian apparel, décolleté and decked in jewels, or arrayed in cocky little bonnets, perched on tousled curls, knowing jackets, and golfing skirts? The present horror of anything elderly comes, probably, from the fact that the preceding generation went to the other extreme, young women retiring at forty into becapped old age.
The girl he saw seemed to be a more beautiful sister of the Miss Morris he knew--a taller, fairer, and more radiant personage; and he feared that it was not she, until he remembered that this was the first time he had ever seen her with her hair dressed high upon her head, and in the more distinguished accessories of a décolleté gown and train.
Thus, for instance, upon the occasion of the air raids conducted by Lieutenant Collet and of Squadron Commander Briggs and his colleagues at Dusseldorf and Friedrichshafen respectively, little difficulty was experienced in destroying the airships riding at anchor.
Old Collet would have joy’d to ’ve seen This president recorded; For all the papers he ere saw Scarce such an one afforded.
Quotes with COLLET (1)
The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and that they will always look after her. The brothers inhabit the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and poetry. The brothers can be called upon in any critical situation for rescue and assistance. When you die, your four spirit brothers collet your soul and bring you to heaven.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1964–2018).