Crossword-Solution: SHAWM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Shawm | n. | A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| SHAWM | anagram | MWAHS, WHAMS |
We have 15 clues for the answer “SHAWM”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Early form of the oboe | 1 answer |
| Early wind instrument | 1 answer |
| Early woodwind | 1 answer |
| Hautboy predecessor | 1 answer |
| OBOE, forerunner of the | 1 answer |
| Oboe ancestor | 1 answer |
| Oboe forerunner | 1 answer |
| Oboe's ancestor | 1 answer |
| Oboe's forerunner | 1 answer |
| Oboe's predecessor | 1 answer |
| medieval form of the oboe with a conical bore and flaring bell | 1 answer |
| Old wind instrument | 2 answers |
| Medieval instrument | 4 answers |
| Hautboy | 6 answers |
| Reed instrument | 9 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "SHAWM"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
8 +1
New Suggestion for "SHAWM"
Related word tools
Sentences with SHAWM (5)
Even the trumpet and shawm of her winds, the stately march of her clouds, and the torrent-rush of her waters, were to them poor facts, no vaguest embodiment of truths eternal.
With shawm and timbrel and ram's-horn trumpet--_i.e._ with cow's horns, poker and tongs, and tea-trays--the indignant and high-toned population collected night after night by the tavern, and made such fearful uproar that the poor girl, really quite innocent, had to leave her situation.
The oldest known mention of them dates from 650 A.D., when the name applied is _calamus_ (reed); later the names _shalmei_ (_chalumeau_, "straw," from German _halm_) and _shawm_ were used.
Accordingly, after the symphony was ended, accompanied at intervals by a single instrument, Peter began his melody, in a key so high, that the utmost exertions of the shawm-blower failed to approach its altitudes.
Make ready there, you gut-scrapers, you shawm-shavers; I'll put your lungs in play for you presently.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1988–2018).