Crossword-Solution: SWIFTER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Swifter | n. | A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. |
| Swifter | n. | A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. |
| Swifter | n. | The forward shroud of a lower mast. |
| Swifter | v. t. | To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “SWIFTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Moving with greater speed. | 1 answer |
| OUTRUNNING | 1 answer |
| What Bannister was at Vancouver. | 1 answer |
| More speedy | 2 answers |
| Lighter on one's feet | 2 answers |
| More rapid | 3 answers |
| Faster | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SWIFTER (5)
Swifter flew the second arrow, In the pathway of the other, Piercing deeper than the other, Wounding sorer than the other; And the knees of Megissogwon Shook like windy reeds beneath him, Bent and trembled like the rushes.
The Fawn and His Mother A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?” She smiled, and said: “I know full well, my son, that all you say is true.
Earth her gracious fruits denies; Women wail in barren throes; Life on life downstriken goes, Swifter than the wind bird’s flight, Swifter than the Fire-God’s might, To the westering shores of Night.
The trees impending over it had flung down great branches from time to time, which choked up the current, and compelled it to form eddies and black depths at some points; while, in its swifter and livelier passages there appeared a channel-way of pebbles, and brown, sparkling sand.
The carts and carriages crowded close upon one another, making little way for those swifter and more impatient vehicles that darted forward every now and then when an opportunity showed itself of doing so, sending the people scattering against the fences and gates of the villas.
Quotes with SWIFTER (3)
Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.
Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.
Most of the machinery of modern language is labour-saving machinery; and it saves mental labour very much more than it ought. Scientific phrases are used like scientific wheels and piston-rods to make swifter and smoother yet the path of the comfortable. Long words go rattling by us like long railway trains. We know they are carrying thousands who are too tired or too indolent to walk and think for themselves. It is a good exercise to try for once in a way to express any opin…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1954–2014).