Crossword-Solution: EIDER 5 letters, 242 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Eider n. Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp.
Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and
America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body)
which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck. The
American eider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis), and the
spectacled eider (Arctonetta Fischeri) are related species.

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Arctic Circle duck 1 answer
Arctic duck 1 answer
Bed down 1 answer
Bedding down? 1 answer
Bedspread feather 1 answer
Big duck 1 answer
Big ducks 1 answer
Bird that gets down 1 answer
Bird that gets you down 1 answer
Bird whose genus name comes from the Ancient Greek words for "body" and "wool" 1 answer
Bird widely seen off Greenland's coast 1 answer
Certain down 1 answer
Coastal duck 1 answer
Comforter filling 1 answer
Comforter material 1 answer
Comforter's contents 1 answer
Contributor to a comforter 1 answer
Creature to get down from 1 answer
DOWNY filler 1 answer
Down at the Pond denizen 1 answer
Down at the pond 1 answer
Down bird 1 answer
Down by the pond? 1 answer
Down duck 1 answer
Down for a pillow 1 answer
Down for a pillow, sometimes 1 answer
Down for a puff. 1 answer
Down for pillows 1 answer
Down from a duck 1 answer
Down in pillows 1 answer
Down in the sea? 1 answer
Down maker 1 answer
Down material 1 answer
Down off a duck 1 answer
Down on ducks 1 answer
Down on the bed? 1 answer
Down on the farm? 1 answer
Down on the pond? 1 answer
Down producer 1 answer
Down-yielding duck 1 answer
Downy Arctic duck. 1 answer
Downy bird 1 answer
Downy duck 1 answer
Downy swimmer 1 answer
Duck covering 1 answer
Duck feathers 1 answer
Duck feathers used in pillows 1 answer
Duck for cover? 1 answer
Duck for down. 1 answer
Duck found backward in "ingredients" 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with EIDER (5)

Her latest “aberration,” as Arnfinn called it, was an extraordinary interest in the habits of the eider-ducks, auks, and sea-gulls, the noisy monotony of whose existence had, but a few months ago, appeared to her the symbol of all that was vulgar and coarse in human and animal life.
Tales From Two Hemispheres Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen 1995
She gives me a swift pain, and,” he added as though it were an after-thought, “I ain't got no use fer dat ransom eider--youse can have dat, too.” “Hold on, Byrne,” cried Theriere; “I have something to say, too.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
Its vivid yellows fairly screamed aloud; its whites were as eider down; its blacks glossy as the finest anthracite coal, and its coat long and shaggy as a mountain goat.
At the Earth's Core Edgar Rice Burroughs 1996
The Dane crosses the Eider, and the Swede the Baltic, to break the chains which are forged for Germany.
The History of the Thirty Years' War Friedrich Schiller 1996
The Danish work was a wall of earth, stones, and wood, with a deep ditch in front, and a castle at every hundred fathoms, between the rivers Eider and Slien, constructed by Harald Blatand (Bluetooth) to oppose the progress of Charlemagne.
Heimskringla Snorri Sturlason 1996

Quotes with EIDER (2)

Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later, --oftener sooner than late,-- is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows.
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Why would a white caribou come down to Beaver River, where the woodland herd lives? Why would she leave the Arctic tundra, where the light blazes incandescent, to haunt these shadows? Why would any caribou leave her herd to walk, solitary, thousands of miles? The herd is comfort. The herd is a fabric you can't cut or tear, passing over the land. If you could see the herd from the sky, if you were a falcon or a king eider, it would appear like softly floating gauze over the fa…
Kathleen Winter Annabel
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 548 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).