Crossword-Solution: TOISE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Toise | a. | An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TOISE | anagram | ESTIO, SOTIE |
We have 5 clues for the answer “TOISE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Old French length unit. | 1 answer |
| obsolete French unit of length roughly equal to 2m | 1 answer |
| measure French | 2 answers |
| FRENCH length measure | 3 answers |
| French measure | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TOISE (5)
These six mortars, the largest that had ever been made, were six inches thick, used forty-five pounds of powder at a charge, and threw bombs fifteen hundred toises [A toise is six feet, and a league is three miles] in the air, and a league and a half out to sea, each bomb thrown costing the state three hundred francs.
During the founding of the Metric System, less than 20 years before the date of this work, the 'toise' was assigned a value of 1.949 meters, or a little over two yards.
The 'foot'; actually the 'French foot', or 'pied', is defined as 1/6 of a 'toise', and is a little over an English foot.) CENTIGRADE THERMOMETER REDUCED TO FAHRENHEIT'S SCALE.
Does it belong to the trap-formation of Parapara? It becomes thicker, and mixed with sand, as we approach the Rio Apure; for near Calabozo it is one toise thick, near the mission of Guayaval five toises, which may lead to the belief that the strata of red sandstone dips towards the south.
Some are at the water's edge, others one-fourth or one-fifth of a toise above the surface of the sea.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1968).