Crossword-Solution: SARISSA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SARISSA | anagram | SASSARI |
We have 1 clue for the answer “SARISSA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Macedonian lance: Lat. | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEAG
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SARISSA (5)
The ‘sarissa’ is supposed to have been a kind of pike with which the soldiers of the Macedonia phalanx were armed.
The sarissa was twenty-one feet in length, and so held by both hands as to project fifteen feet before the body of the pikeman.
Sweet to meet our friends in glory, Tears for ever wiped away By the guardian hand that leads us Up the steep and narrow way, Time's short circles Lost in one eternal day! SARISSA.
The lancers under Protomachus and Aristo's Pæonians, who had been thrown forward in advance of the cavalry, raised a shout as the scarred veterans, each holding his long sarissa erect and bearing his heavy shield across his shoulder, followed the proud Agema.
The men were placed sixteen deep, armed with the _sarissa_, or long pike, twenty-four feet in length.
Quotes with SARISSA (1)
I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked." Thwart." I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.""I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition," Sarissa said." It is today.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1949).