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Crossword-Solution: VIOL 4 letters, 155 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Viol n. A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same
form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck
with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
Viol n. A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

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VIOL anagram VOIL

We have 155 clues for the answer “VIOL”

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"The ___, the violet, and the vine": Poe 1 answer
16th-century bowed stringed instrument 1 answer
16th-century stringed instrument 1 answer
17th century stringed instrument 1 answer
Alto clef instrument 1 answer
Ancestor of a cello 1 answer
Ancestor of the contrabass. 1 answer
Bad-sounding instrument? 1 answer
Baroque bowed instrument 1 answer
Baroque chamber instrument 1 answer
Baroque-orchestra instrument 1 answer
Bass __ (cello ancestor) 1 answer
Bass __ (old instrument) 1 answer
Bass __ (stringed instrument) 1 answer
Bowed baroque instrument 1 answer
Bowed musical instrument 1 answer
Cello ancestor 1 answer
Cello forerunner 1 answer
Cello precursor 1 answer
Cello's ancestor 1 answer
Cello's little relative 1 answer
Common stringed instrument of the past 1 answer
Consort member 1 answer
Contrabass, for instance. 1 answer
Early type of bow instrument. 1 answer
Fat fiddle 1 answer
Fat fiddle forerunner 1 answer
Fiddle forerunner 1 answer
Fiddle's family 1 answer
Fiddle's fancy relative 1 answer
Fiddle's relative. 1 answer
Fretted ancestor of the fiddle 1 answer
Fretted fiddle 1 answer
Gudok, e.g. 1 answer
If you play it, take a bow 1 answer
Instrument Bach wrote for 1 answer
Instrument in Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" 1 answer
Instrument popular in Shakespeare's day 1 answer
Instrument popular in the 1600s 1 answer
Instrument seen in Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" 1 answer
Old stringed instrument similar to a viola 1 answer
It has a low-arched bridge 1 answer
It has six strings 1 answer
It may have seven strings 1 answer
It takes a bow at a recital 1 answer
It took a bow 1 answer
Its player takes a bow 1 answer
Its players bow 1 answer
Its players take a bow 1 answer
Member of a Baroque consort 1 answer
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Sentences with VIOL (5)

The immortal tune ended, a fine DD rolling forth from the bass-viol with the sonorousness of a cannonade, and Gabriel delayed his entry no longer.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
From their corner came a medley of mellow sounds, the subdued chirps of the violins, the dull bourdon of the bass viol, the liquid gurgling of the flageolet and the deep-toned snarl of the big horn, with now and then a rasping stridulating of the snare drum.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
From me you shall not hear The splendid tramplings of insistent drums, The orbed gold of the viol's voice that comes, Heavy with radiance, languorous and clear.
Young Adventure Stephen Vincent Benet 1995
Lifting his hand to his head, the absent-minded Professor gravely felt and removed the little cocked hat, looked at it a minute, and then threw back his head and laughed like a merry bass viol.
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1996
Violet now, in veil on veil of evening The hills across from Cromwell grow dreamy and far; A wood-thrush is singing soft as a viol In the heart of the hollow where the dark pools are; The primrose has opened her pale yellow flowers And heaven is lighting star after star.
Flame and Shadow Sara Teasdale 1996

Quotes with VIOL (2)

Then Viol Chrime-Forgot and Sir Duno Chrime held each other tightly and wept sweet tears and Sir Duno Chrime swore that he did not care if his squire was a little strange and that he would never abandon him again so long as he lived and Viol Chrime-Forgot said he did not care if Duno Chrime was old, or mad or thought that he was made of glass, for he would never be apart from him again no matter what adventure fell, and though neither could hear each other over the roaring of…
Patrick Stuart False Readings
Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather an other chaos, that it created in us. Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 196 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).