Crossword-Solution: LINCHPIN 8 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Linchpin n. A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding
off the axletree.

We have 17 clues for the answer “LINCHPIN”

Clue Answers
Axle insert 1 answer
pin to hold a wheel on its axle 1 answer
pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on 1 answer
Vital person or thing 1 answer
Piece that holds the rest together 1 answer
Person or thing essential to plan 1 answer
Crucial unifying element 1 answer
Crucial component 1 answer
Critical element 1 answer
An extremely important person 1 answer
Key element 2 answers
good right arm 3 answers
forelock 4 answers
Mainstay 13 answers
Wheel part 15 answers
Keystone 16 answers
Essential Part 36 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LINCHPIN (5)

The fact that, before we started, I myself withdrew its linchpin goes to support this theory." "My poor father! Master Adam, I almost find it in my heart to hate you." "Believe me, fair but haughty, the old fool has taken no hurt.
The Brother of Daphne Dornford Yates 2008
From the way they were doing it, I shouldn't think they ever had." "But they will soon procure a new linchpin.
The Brother of Daphne Dornford Yates 2008
Away back in 1778 a linchpin had slipped in a wagon on the Wilderness Road and his grandfather's only brother, Chadwick Buford, had concluded to stop there for a while and hunt and come on later--thus ran an old letter that the Major had in his strong box at home--and that brother had never turned up again and the supposition was that he had been killed by Indians.
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come John Fox 2000
Theoretically, the Government should have paid for every shoe and linchpin, for every hand employed in the loading; but Government vouchers cash themselves slowly, and intelligent and efficient clerks write at great length, contesting unauthorised expenditures of eight annas.
The Day’s Work Rudyard Kipling 2001
Partridge bore all this patiently.” How many times, when, after rough usage from ill-mannered critics, my own vocabulary of vituperation was simmering in such a lively way that it threatened to boil and lift its lid and so boil over, those words have calmed the small internal effervescence! There is very little in them and very little of them; and so there is not much in a linchpin considered by itself, but it often keeps a wheel from coming off and prevents what might be a catastrophe.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.) 2006

Quotes with LINCHPIN (3)

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can. The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job. Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. I call …
Seth Godin Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Consciousness and free will are necessary in order for human beings to live meaningful lives by supplying agency to our intentions. The innate capacity for consciousness and directed free will plays a linchpin role in making human curiosity a viable concept. We would lack an ability to learn without an inquisitive mind and the ability to act. A premeditated act of human free will enables us to apply what we learn and make calculated adjustments when our plans need alteration.…
Kilroy J. Oldster Dead Toad Scrolls
Although the repetition of a word or phrase is a preparatory practice and is itself not meditation, choosing a word or phrase that honors your belief system can be the linchpin you need for your mediation practice, providing both motivation and philosophical coherency.
Gudjon Bergmann
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1998–2016).