Crossword-Solution: TRANKS
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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
AEGTA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TRANKS (5)
The most delicate part of the glovemaker's art, in which exact judgment is required, comes in preparing the "tranks" or slips, from which the separate gloves are cut.
Several tranks are laid upon it, the lever is drawn, and in a moment the blanks are cut out clean and smooth.
His perpetual air of sour cynicism was absent as he chuckled to the room's sole inhabitant, "What! A son of mine gawking at Telly? Next I'll be finding tranks by the bowl full, sitting on the tea table." His son grinned at him.
The cutters cut the skins into tranks (the shape of the hand in outline) with the separate thumbs and forgits, and sent them in to the slitters.
The cutter must know, of course, whether the tranks he is producing are for overseam, piqué or prick-seam gloves, as each requires a different pattern.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2012–2018).