Crossword-Solution: STINGRAY 8 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Passing the mouth of the Rappahannock, by some called the Tappahannock, where in shoal water were many fish lurking in the weeds, Smith had his first experience of the Stingray.

The polishing of the bore is effected by working to and fro within it a long piece of closely fitting rattan; that of the outer surface, by rubbing it first with the skin of a stingray (which, although a marine fish, sometimes ascends to the upper reaches of the rivers), and afterwards with the leaf (EMPLAS) which is the local substitute for emery paper.

Solander found in this place occasioned my giving it the Name of Botany Bay.* (* The Bay was at first called Stingray Bay.

Then Martha Westall dreamed of flowers, and two days later her son James stepped on a stingray over at Dale's Gift.

This piece of wood tapers to a point, on which is fastened an old nail, very sharp, and bent up, so as to serve for a barb; behind which, again, are two other barbs, made of the spines from the tail of the stingray.