Crossword-Solution: TIGHTENER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tightener | n. | That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TIGHTENER | anagram | RETIGHTEN, TETHERING |
We have 1 clue for the answer “TIGHTENER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wrench or screwdriver, often | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
EAGTA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TIGHTENER (5)
Turnbuckle--A form of wire-tightener, consisting of a barrel into each end of which is screwed an eyebolt.
There was still, in spite of all his tact and efforts, somewhat of a feeling against him as a new-comer, an innovator, a tightener of loose cords, and no one offered to change quarters to oblige him.
For this supplying them with food is as it were a tightener of love, for even the brute creation, if taken away from their young, pine away, as we constantly see.
The nut, now squeezed into position, will not require the clamp, but if time is no desideratum an application of that useful tightener will ensure a firm hold, and moreover the superfluous glue is forced out.
Now tighten the cinch, pull up the slack, giving strong heaves where the hitch pulls forward or back along the left of the horse, ending with a last tightener at the end (_b_, Fig.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2017).