Crossword-Solution: GROMA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GROMA | anagram | GARMO, GRAMO, MAGOR, MARGO, MORAG |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Roman survey tool | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
AAETG
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with GROMA (4)
GROMATICI (from _groma_ or _gruma_, a surveyor's pole), or _Agrimensores_, the name for land-surveyors amongst the Romans.
Etruscan loan-words in Latin tell us something: _antemna_, “yard-arm”; _histrio_, “actor”; _atrium_, “patio”; _groma_, “plane-table” suggest Etruscan predominance on the sea and the stage, in domestic architecture and surveying.
Wherever colonies were planted, wherever land was captured, confiscated, redistributed to the poor or to veterans, the surveyor with his _groma_, or plane-table, was on hand.
Thus at Cosa the _groma_, for siting the allotments, could have been set up in the Porta Romana (the northeast gate), and at Alba the line of the Via Valeria inside the walls, if projected, would cut the lines of centuriation at right angles.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1979).