Crossword-Solution: FID
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fid | n. | A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees. |
| Fid | n. | A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything. |
| Fid | n. | A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing. |
| Fid | n. | A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FID | anagram | DIF |
We have 21 clues for the answer “FID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| iron crosspiece | 1 answer |
| Yacht pole | 1 answer |
| Wooden pin: Naut. | 1 answer |
| Wooden pin used in splicing rope. | 1 answer |
| Topmast support | 1 answer |
| Cousin of a marlinespike. | 1 answer |
| Marlinespike. | 1 answer |
| Tapering pin used in rope splicing. | 1 answer |
| Pin used in splicing rope. | 1 answer |
| Pin for splicing rope. | 1 answer |
| wooden crosspiece | 2 answers |
| Nautical pin. | 2 answers |
| Nautical bar. | 3 answers |
| Metal pin. | 3 answers |
| Mast support | 6 answers |
| Wooden pin | 7 answers |
| Crosspiece. | 7 answers |
| A SAIL IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THE LOWERMOST SAIL OF A MAST AND SUPPORTED BY A TOPMAST | 11 answers |
| PIN | 37 answers |
| Support | 104 answers |
| Bar | 109 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FID (5)
Priez-le incomparable Saint qu’il donne une paix perpetuëlle au Royaume dont vous avez porté le sceptre; qu’il le préserve d’hérésie; qu’il y face toûjours regner saintement vostre illustre Sang; et que tous ceux qui ont l’honneur d’en descendre soient pour jamais fidèles à son Eglise.
Every one knows those two lines of Voltaire's-- "Aranda dans l'Espagne instruisant les fidèles, A l'inquisition vient de rogner les ailes." * * "Aranda in Spain instructing the faithful at the Inquisition has just clipped wings." --Transcriber.
This section, on learning that its vote against the decrees" was put down as a cipher in the general count of votes," protested and declared that "when the vote was taken at the meeting of Fructidor 22, it was composed of 845 citizens representing 2,594 votes." Nevertheless, in the general recapitulation of Vendémiaire its vote counts for nothing.--The same remark for the "Fidélité" section.
But one day, as they lay becalmed south of the line, a jolly foretopman came on the quarter-deck with a fid of soup, and saluting and scraping, first to the deck, then to the captain, asked him if he would taste that.
Before a girl puts on her lu-fid', or woven bark-fiber skirt, at about 8 or 10 years of age, she at times wears simply the narrow girdle, later worn to hold up the skirt.
Quotes with FID (2)
Puis il réfléchit: la réalité ne coïncide habituellement pas avec les prévisions; avec une logique perverse, il en déduisit que prévoir un détail circonstanciel, c'est empêcher que celui-ci se réalise. Fidèle à cette faible magie, il inventait, pour les empêcher de se réaliser, des péripéties atroces; naturellement, il finit par craindre que ces péripéties ne fussent prophétiques. Misérable dans la nuit, il essayait de s'affirmer en quelque sorte dans la substance fugitive du…
Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1954–2001).