Crossword-Solution: HEADSTONE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Headstone | n. | The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. |
| Headstone | n. | The stone at the head of a grave. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “HEADSTONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| *Graveyard sight | 1 answer |
| Epitaph holder ... or Mick Jagger? | 1 answer |
| Epitaph place | 1 answer |
| Plot marker | 1 answer |
| Schoolmaster in "Our Mutual Friend." | 1 answer |
| Slab marking a grave | 1 answer |
| tombstone | 5 answers |
| Grave marker? | 7 answers |
| marks a grave | 7 answers |
| gravestone | 7 answers |
| MOURNING symbol | 9 answers |
| Keystone | 16 answers |
| Monument | 30 answers |
| Ledger | 51 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HEADSTONE (5)
Glennard’s eye, as he followed the way indicated to him, had instinctively sought some low mound with a quiet headstone.
Here Angele was buried, in the smallest grave of them all, marked by the little headstone, with its two dates, only sixteen years apart.
Why my uncle Podger has a tomb in Kensal Green Cemetery, that is the pride of all that country-side; and my grandfather’s vault at Bow is capable of accommodating eight visitors, while my great-aunt Susan has a brick grave in Finchley Churchyard, with a headstone with a coffee-pot sort of thing in bas-relief upon it, and a six-inch best white stone coping all the way round, that cost pounds.
She thought of her then, mournfully but more calmly, as thrust away under the neglected mound of some unknown cemetery, where no headstone marked her name, no mourner with flowers for another grave paused in pity to lay a blossom on hers.
Disease and accident make short work of even the most prosperous persons; death costs nothing, and the expense of a headstone is an inconsiderable trifle to the happy heir.
Quotes with HEADSTONE (3)
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. From an Irish headstone
Enough! we're tired, my heart and I.We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.
Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WP.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1955–2021).