Crossword-Solution: DISCUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discus | n. | A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill. |
| Discus | n. | The exercise with the discus. |
| Discus | n. | A disk. See Disk. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DISCUS (5)
Insomuch that the priests were not now occupied about the offices of the altar, but despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the games, and of the unlawful allowance thereof, and of the exercise of the discus.
And then, by that ratio, I computed the refractions of two rays flowing from opposite parts of the sun's discus, so as to differ 31' in their obliquity of incidence, and found that the emergent rays should have comprehended an angle of 31', as they did, before they were incident.
What I would remark is the difference of this attention from that of the Discobolus, who is engaged in the same purpose, watching the effect of his Discus.
They next proceed to the games, the race, the wrestling, discus, &c., where Ulysses casts a prodigious length, to the admiration of all the spectators.
Then thus aloud (elate with decent pride) “Rise, ye Phæacians, try your force (he cried): If with this throw the strongest caster vie, Still, further still, I bid the discus fly.
Quotes with DISCUS (3)
But soon the poltergeist ran out of ideas in connection with Aunt Maud and became, as it were, more eclectic. All the banal motions that objects are limited to in such cases, were gone through in this one. Saucepans crashed in the kitchen; a snowball was found (perhaps, prematurely) in the icebox; once or twice Sybil saw a plate sail by like a discus and land safely on the sofa; lamps kept lighting up in various parts of the house; chairs waddled away to assemble in the impas…
And before me the empty table at the Theater Café with my reservation - Barnum Nilsen, 8PM - the only table no one sits at. And this too is an echo, an echo of time, the shadows of a discus spinning through blinding sunlight.
I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 43 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).