Crossword-Solution: SLAKING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Slaking | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Slake |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SLAKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Quelling, as thirst | 1 answer |
| Quenching | 1 answer |
| Thirst-relieving | 1 answer |
| Allaying | 2 answers |
| refreshing | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SLAKING (5)
Then she stayed him, and laughed sweetly in his face, and said: "It is a long while now since the beginning of the June day, and meseems I know thy lack, and the slaking of it lieth somewhat nearer than Hampton under Scaur, which we shall not reach these two days if we go afoot all the way." "My lack?" said he; "I lack nought now, that I may not have when I will." And he put his arms about her shoulders and strained her to his bosom.
Even then, When two mouths, thirsty each for each, find slaking, And agony's forgot, and hushed the crying Of credulous hearts, in heaven -- such are but taking Their own poor dreams within their arms, and lying Each in his lonely night, each with a ghost.
The old stoker had just finished slaking the out-fires, and was putting some blue plates on the table, gravely straightening them.
HEARKEN my chant, ’tis As a Bacchante’s, A grape-spurt, a vine-splash, a tossed tress, flown vaunt ’tis! Suffer my singing, Gipsy of Seasons, ere thou go winging; Ere Winter throws His slaking snows In thy feasting-flagon’s impurpurate glows! The sopped sun—toper as ever drank hard— Stares foolish, hazed, Rubicund, dazed, Totty with thine October tankard.
Saintot took the breeches and went his way towards Poissy, gay as a grasshopper, stopping to chat with friends he met on the way, slaking his thirst at the wayside inns, and showing many things to the breeches during the journey that might hereafter be useful to them.
Quotes with SLAKING (1)
The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like a juggler and catching them deftly again behind. It raced knee-deep through the clefts and crevices, twisted and tortured in a thousand ways, till it swept nuzzling and sucking into the holes at the base of the cliff. The whole reef was a shambles of foam, but it was bright in the sun, bright as a shattered mirror, exuberant and leaping with light.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2005–2019).