Crossword-Solution: REFLOAT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Refloat | n. | Reflux; ebb. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REFLOAT | anagram | FLOATER, FLOREAT |
We have 3 clues for the answer “REFLOAT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cause to become buoyant again | 1 answer |
| Right a grounded ship | 1 answer |
| CAUSE TO BECOME ALIVE AGAIN | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ORSLAD
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with REFLOAT (5)
The open boats would then come alongside and we would have to get out of the launch and enter the boats and proceed to the top of the nearest hill to watch the efforts of the eunuchs trying to refloat the launch.
The whole of his limited capital would not have paid for a tenth part of the labour necessary to refloat the ship, so he resolved to leave her on the beach, and go to the diggings.
Next day unsuccessful efforts were made to get his ship off and in the afternoon, as her captain expected the enemy's ships might arrive to secure the "Izumrud" and refloat her, he landed his crew on Russian ground, destroyed his guns one by one with blasting charges, and then blew up the ship.
RULE VII.--DAMAGE TO ENGINES IN REFLOATING A SHIP Damage caused to machinery and boilers of a ship which is ashore and in a position of peril, in endeavouring to refloat, shall be allowed in G.A., when shown to have arisen from an actual intention to float the ship for the common safety at the risk of such damage.
The Lamp-post and Rawlins took fifty men ashore, and worked, day after day, digging away the seaweed which blocked the little piers, and trying to refloat the least damaged of the steamboats; the Sub, with a number of men, had to rig shears to lift out the engines and boilers of those which were hopelessly smashed—all very unpleasant work, because that seaweed decomposed quickly under a hot sun and gave out the most unpleasant odour.
Quotes with REFLOAT (1)
Christmas, 1492….Unfortunately, on Christmas morning 1492 Columbus' ship, the Santa María, ran aground on the northern coast of what is now Haiti. Not having any way to refloat her, the crew off-loaded the provisions and equipment from the ship before she broke up. For protection they then built a flimsy fortification on the beach, calling it “La Navidad.” With the consent of the local Indian Chief, Columbus left behind 39 men with orders to establish a settlement, and appoin…
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1992–2014).