Crossword-Solution: DISTAFFS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Distaffs | pl. | of Distaff |
We have 4 clues for the answer “DISTAFFS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Flax holders | 1 answer |
| Parts of spinning wheels. | 1 answer |
| Spinning wheel attachments | 1 answer |
| Wool holders for spinning wheels. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EAMZEC
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eruption
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Sentences with DISTAFFS (5)
Statues of Wood-gods stand around, fair Nymphs, Looms, distaffs, all such things as mortal craft Fashioneth.
That the unhappy objects of their cruelty were released from torture only by death; and as their mangled bodies were dragged through the streets, they were pierced (such was the universal rage) by the spits of cooks, and the distaffs of enraged women; and that the entrails of Christian priests and virgins, after they had been tasted by those bloody fanatics, were mixed with barley, and contemptuously thrown to the unclean animals of the city.
The women had distaffs and heavy spindles, by means of which they spun a kind of coarse pack-thread, which the children wound up, sitting on stools at their feet.
Then came the Feast of Lovers, called the Buscou,{4} on the last day of the year, where, in a large chamber, some hundred distaffs were turning, and boys and girls, with nimble fingers, were winding thread of the finest flax.
And now you are going too, who could carry my thoughts out of these gray walls, and raise my mind above tapestry and distaffs.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1955–2013).