Crossword-Solution: SHEEPSHANK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sheepshank | n. | A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “SHEEPSHANK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Conformist's tee shot? | 1 answer |
| Knot for shortening a rope. | 1 answer |
| Knot used to shorten lines | 1 answer |
| Knot used to take up slack | 1 answer |
| Line-shortening knot | 1 answer |
| Rope-shortening knot | 1 answer |
| a hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened | 1 answer |
| Knot type | 4 answers |
| Type of knot | 8 answers |
| KNOT, type of | 17 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHEEPSHANK (5)
They carried her out eastwards, across Burgate Street (which dates from the days of King Ethelred), down by the city wall, past Saint George's Gate and the Grey Friars, up Sheepshank's Lane, and so to the old Norman Castle, the keep of which is the third largest of Norman keeps in England, and is now, to the glory of all the Huns and Vandals, converted into a gasometer! In the barbican sat several prisoners in chains, begging their bread.
Take the Kensington Museum: the only thing there (I speak in all seriousness) worth any man spending an hour or a shilling upon, are the Sheepshank and Turner galleries; all those costly, tawdry, prodigious, and petty displays of arts and manufactures, I look upon as mere delusions and child’s play.
Tie four out of the following knots: square or reef, sheet-bend, bowline, fisherman's, sheepshank, halter, clove hitch, timber hitch, or two half hitches.
The 49 Sheet Bend or Weaver's Knot 50 Square or Reef Knot 50 Sheepshank 50 Timber Hitch 51 Two Half Hitches 51 Whipping a Rope 49 Land Ordinances (1785) (1787) 334 Land Settlements 325 Lanyard 364 Leadership 152 Lean-to, The 146 Lee, Robert E 335 Leggings 364 Letter from Col.
The chief steward was a friend, the bos'n or quartermaster had shown us the trick of a sheepshank or a reef-knot or a short splice.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1965–2023).