Crossword-Solution: QUAKER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quaker | n. | One who quakes. |
| Quaker | n. | One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. |
| Quaker | n. | The nankeen bird. |
| Quaker | n. | The sooty albatross. |
| Quaker | n. | Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “QUAKER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ‘Inner Light’ Christian | 1 answer |
| Richard Nixon's religious affiliation | 1 answer |
| Member of the Society of Friends | 1 answer |
| Giant in oats | 1 answer |
| Friend from Pennsylvania | 1 answer |
| trembler | 2 answers |
| William Penn, for one. | 2 answers |
| PENNSYLVANIAN State nickname | 2 answers |
| Pennsylvanian? | 3 answers |
| Penn, for one | 4 answers |
| sectarist | 4 answers |
| Penn., e.g. | 5 answers |
| Abolitionist | 24 answers |
| freedom fighter | 32 answers |
| Pacifist | 49 answers |
| RELIGIOUS sect, type of | 56 answers |
| Friend | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with QUAKER (5)
There'll be a perfect Quaker meeting down there." "Oh, I guess 'Rene will find something to say if you leave her to herself.
The sight of the broad brim and the plain, Quaker dress, which met me at every turn, greatly increased my sense of freedom and security.
Since he was certain there were no private arms in the whole principality, he was a hundred times more certain there were none in the Quaker’s little hermitage on the hill, where he lived on herbs, with two old rustic servants, and with no other voice of man for year after year.
Out of it descended a tall, broad-shouldered figure--a man in the prime of life, whose ripe, aggressive vitality gave his rigid Quaker garb the air of a military undress.
Traces of the old Quaker effect which had been so characteristic of him still hung about his garb and mien, but there shone a new assurance on his benignant, rubicund face.
Quotes with QUAKER (3)
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew--or a Quaker--or a Unitarian--or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim- -but tomorrow it may be you--until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril. Finally, I…
I Love Spirituality it reminds me of the Old Quaker Oats Commercial. "Nothing is better for thee than me"!
What to wear on a Minnesota farm? The older farmers I know wear brown polyester jumpsuits, like factory workers. The younger ones wear jeans, but the forecast was for ninety-five degrees with heavy humidity. The wardrobe of Quaker ladies in their middle years runs to denim skirts and hiking boots. This outfit had worked fine for me in England. But one of my jobs in Minnesota will be to climb onto the industrial cuisinart in the hay barn and mix fifty-pound bags of nutritional…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1962–2021).