Crossword-Solution: IRONWOOD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ironwood | n. | A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “IRONWOOD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Elijah, press your clothes!" | 1 answer |
| Material sometimes used in fence posts | 1 answer |
| Tree with very hard timber | 1 answer |
| Tree yielding very hard lumber | 1 answer |
| Very hard, heavy timber. | 1 answer |
| hornbeam | 3 answers |
| ACLE | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IRONWOOD (5)
Two or three hours’ rest would, he thought, put him in a state to continue his road, and so he laid himself down on the grass as comfortably as he could, and waited for sleep beneath the ironwood-tree.
Trees of many species (nearly 500) yield excellent timber, ranging from the hardest ironwood or BILIAN, and other hard woods (many of them so close-grained that they will not float in water), to soft, easily worked kinds.
Its roof is always a simple ridge extending the whole length of the house, and is made of shingles of BILIAN (ironwood) or other hard and durable kind of wood.
The framework of the roof is supported at a height of some 25 to 30 feet from the ground on massive piles of ironwood, and the floor is supported by the same piles at a level some 7 or 8 feet below the cross-beams of the roof.
Beside the sword and the spears the only weapons commonly used are heavy bars of ironwood, sharpened at both ends and flung so as to twirl rapidly in the air.
Quotes with IRONWOOD (1)
I prayed to a mystery. Sometimes I was simply aware of the mystery. I saw a flash of it during a trip to New York that David and I took before we were married. We were walking on a busy sidewalk in Manhattan. I don't remember if it was day or night. A man with a wound on his forehead came toward us. His damp, ragged hair might have been clotted with blood, or maybe it was only dirt. He wore deeply dirty clothes. His red, swollen hands, cupped in half-fists, swung loosely at h…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1953–2016).