Crossword-Solution: DACTYL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dactyl | n. | A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. |
| Dactyl | n. | A finger or toe; a digit. |
| Dactyl | n. | The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “DACTYL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| metrical foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short | 1 answer |
| a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables | 1 answer |
| One of two in "Promises, Promises" | 1 answer |
| METRICAL foot of one long and one short | 1 answer |
| Long-short-short, in verse | 1 answer |
| Long-short-short poetic foot | 1 answer |
| Jefferson in poetry class, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Foot in the Iliad | 1 answer |
| "Washington," in poetry | 1 answer |
| "Poetry," in poetry | 1 answer |
| "Innocent," but not "guilty" | 2 answers |
| Toe, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Prosodic foot | 2 answers |
| Finger or toe | 2 answers |
| THREE-syllable foot | 3 answers |
| foot metric | 4 answers |
| poem/poetry foot | 4 answers |
| foot poem/poetry | 4 answers |
| foot verse | 4 answers |
| anapest relative | 5 answers |
| Poetic measure. | 6 answers |
| POETIC foot | 6 answers |
| FOOT (poet.) | 8 answers |
| ___-toe. | 11 answers |
| ANAPEST KIN | 12 answers |
| metrical foot | 12 answers |
| Metric Foot | 12 answers |
| digit | 19 answers |
| metrical unit | 32 answers |
| Finger | 36 answers |
| Verse | 49 answers |
| Foot | 64 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 DACTYL (5)
This young Bosinney” (he made the word a dactyl in opposition to general usage of a short o) “has got nothing.
Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.—Master, I must relate to you the history of the Barbeau mansion.
Now the medium of these is about fourteen syllables, because the dactyl is a more frequent foot in hexameters than the spondee.
May we not also attribute to the worship of stones some of the religious and funeral rites of antiquity? According to Porphyry, Pythagoras, on his arrival on the island of Crete, was purified with thunder-stones by the dactyl priests of Mount Ida.
First he had, in sport, named some of them after the metrical feet of Latin verse, which had been but ill friends of his in his school days, and in his kennel there was a Troch, Iamb, Spond and Dact, whose full names were Trochee, Iambus, Spondee and Dactyl.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1995–2022).