Crossword-Solution: PLEDGET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pledget | n. | A small plug. |
| Pledget | n. | A string of oakum used in calking. |
| Pledget | n. | A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PLEDGET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Piece of cotton. | 2 answers |
| ABSORBENT cloth | 13 answers |
| Wad | 27 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
ZMACEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLEDGET (5)
The body-pile is removed by "Takhfíf"; the Libán Shámi (Syrian incense), a fir- gum imported from Scio, is melted and allowed to cool in the form of a pledget.
Bhang and Kusumbá (opium dissolved and strained through a pledget of cotton) are always drunk before dinner and thus the “jolly” time is the preprandial, not the postprandial.
Then she bound over the wound the soft pledget of old linen she had brought, and tied round his head a cotton rag to hold the dressing in place.
Upon the cranium and over the flaps of the scalp, as well as in their angles, the ordinary dressing of albumen is to be applied, covered by a pledget of lint and a suitable bandage.
Every day the pledget which remains in the wound is to be drawn towards the most dependent part, so that the dressing in the wound may be daily renewed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1949).