Crossword-Solution: JACKSTRAW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jackstraw | n. | An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. |
| Jackstraw | n. | One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “JACKSTRAW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| One or many little sticks in a game. | 1 answer |
| Pick-up sticks piece | 1 answer |
| Stick in pick-up-sticks | 1 answer |
| Stick pulled from a pile | 1 answer |
| ENGLISH game originally played with straws | 3 answers |
| GAME originally played with straws | 3 answers |
| GAME played with straws | 3 answers |
| SCARECROW | 12 answers |
| ENGLISH game | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMECZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with JACKSTRAW (5)
Each jackstraw had one of its ends fashioned in the shape of some sort of implement,--a rake, hoe, spade, fork, or mallet.
Although my client could have told you, offhand, jackstraw's last mile in a bicycle sulky, his notion of the Scimitar's speed was as vague as his knowledge of seamanship.
And he now heard some of the club gossip, and all about Dangerfield's proposal for Gertrude Chattesworth, and how the old people were favourable, and the young lady averse--and how Dangerfield was content to leave the question in abeyance, and did not seem to care a jackstraw what the townspeople said or thought--and then he came to the Walsinghams, and Devereux for the first time really listened.
But before God and all the holy angels, Blanche de Malétroit, if I have not, I care not one jackstraw.
Tell him we don't care a jackstraw for his mutiny, and that if he lives through it we'll take him in irons to Panama and have him hanged as high as Haman.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1954–2012).