Crossword-Solution: EARING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Earing | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Ear |
| Earing | n. | A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing. |
| Earing | n. | A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing. |
| Earing | n. | A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions. |
| Earing | n. | Coming into ear, as corn. |
| Earing | n. | A plowing of land. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| EARING | anagram | AIGNER, GAINER, IGERNA, INGEAR, INRAGE, REAGIN, REGAIN, REGINA |
We have 10 clues for the answer “EARING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bringing forth fruit, as corn | 1 answer |
| Forming fruiting spikes. | 1 answer |
| Forming spikes, as corn. | 1 answer |
| Growing spicae. | 1 answer |
| Rope for reefing a sail | 1 answer |
| Short nautical line | 1 answer |
| Small rope for a gaff. | 1 answer |
| line fastened to a corner of a sail for reefing | 1 answer |
| Sail line | 3 answers |
| Sail rope. | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
LTEECOR
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with EARING (5)
The first on the yard goes to the weather earing, the second to the lee, and the next two to the "dog's ears;" while the others lay along into the bunt, just giving each other elbow-room.
The mizen topsail, which was a comparatively new sail, and close-reefed, split, from head to foot, in the bunt; the fore-topsail went, in one rent, from clew to earing, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsail-yard sprung in the slings; the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and, owing to the long dry weather, the lee rigging hung in large bights, at every lurch.
After we had got the sail hauled upon the yard, we had to wait a long time for the weather earing to be passed; but there was no fault to be found, for French John was at the earing, and a better sailor never laid out on a yard; so we leaned over the yard, and beat our hands upon the sail to keep them from freezing.
Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak and throat halyards again." "You've forgot to pass the tack-earing, but wid time and help ye'll larn.
Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak-and throat-halyards again." "You've forgot to pass the tack-earing, but wid time and help ye'll l'arn.
Quotes with EARING (3)
Hey, aren’t you that girl from the web?” the new one asked, bending to suck my earing between his teeth. I pulled my head away. “You got the wrong girl.” Mr. Hawaii pulled back to take a better look at me. “No, I think you might be.” To my total bewilderment, he spun me around. “Hey! What are you — ?”“Hey, it is you!” he yelled excitedly, drawing the attention of the crowd. “Hey, everyone, it’s Cheeky Galore!
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It *is*--is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement. To be nothing in the self-effacement of humility, yet, for the sake of the task, to embody its whole weight and…
At home, I tend to read print, and most of the time, that means recently released hardcover novels. I enjoy the feel of paper and board; I like turning pages, dog-earing my spot, jotting notes in the back.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1955–2015).