Crossword-Solution: TEPETATE
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| Waste rock, in mining. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
Hint 2 anagram
STUEAT
Hint 3 another clue
Liberty
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Sentences with TEPETATE (3)
Besides, there was an inexhaustible supply of pumice-stone (_tepetate_), and an exceedingly soft, gray quarry stone, for caps and lintels, with an excellent quality of cement, and material for "_fresco_ painting" of the walls, abundant and cheap.
With the rude implements of the Indians, houses of the driest blocks of mud, though covered with cement and painted with colored wash, could easily have been thrown down; but gunpowder or iron bars would have been necessary to overturn a wall composed either of stone or _tepetate_ and cement.
Beyond the village of _San Pedro_, we ascended the _tepetate_[3] lomes--_lomas_--of the eastern side of the plain of Mexico, upon which soil the roads are always worn deep and rough.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1950).