Crossword-Solution: MAW
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Maw | n. | A gull. |
| Maw | n. | A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt. |
| Maw | n. | Appetite; inclination. |
| Maw | n. | An old game at cards. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MAW | anagram | AWM, WAM, WMA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MAW (5)
Childless thou art, Childless remaine: So Death shall be deceav’d his glut, and with us two Be forc’d to satisfie his Rav’nous Maw.
For, yet a little while, And sound of lamentation shall be heard, Of men and women through thy desolate halls; And all thy neighbor States are leagues to avenge Their mangled warriors who have found a grave I’ the maw of wolf or hound, or winged bird That flying homewards taints their city’s air.
Utterson; and then sharply, “How do you come to have it open?” “The man at Maw’s was main angry, sir, and he threw it back to me like so much dirt,” returned Poole.
For ages the enemies of Tario have been hurled to this pit to fill his maw, for Komal must be fed.” “Is there any way out of this chamber to the avenues of the city?” asked Carthoris.
Standing over the labouring seamen, the young woman breathed a sigh of relief as the last strand of the cable parted and she knew that the vessel was on its way out of the maw of the savage Ugambi.
Quotes with MAW (3)
Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics.
I should say we’d reach England by Tuesday or thereabouts, with a decent wind behind us. It would be a lot quicker than that if we could just sail straight there, but I was looking at the nautical charts, and there’s a dirty great sea serpent right in the middle of the ocean! It has a horrible gaping maw and one of those scaly tails that looks like it could snap a boat clean in two. So I thought it best to sail around that.’Fitz Roy frowned. ‘I think they just draw those on m…
Seven thousand of them were indicted and arraigned, and then they entered the maw of the criminal justice system — right here — through the gateway into Gibraltar, where the vans were lined up. That was about 150 new cases, 150 more pumping hearts and morose glares, every week that the courts and the Bronx County District Attorney's Office were open. And to what end? The same stupid, dismal, pathetic, horrifying crimes were committed day in and day out, all the same. What was…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 278 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).