Crossword-Solution: WINDLESTRAW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Windlestraw | n. | A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “WINDLESTRAW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Highlands weakling | 1 answer |
| anything light or insubstantial; feeble person | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach
accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the
stomach; loathing.
Hint 2 anagram
UAESNA
Hint 3 another clue
PERPLEXED state
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Sentences with WINDLESTRAW (5)
The sound of his pipe was like singing wasps, and like the wind that sings in windlestraw; and it took hold upon men's ears like the crying of gulls.
THE WINDLESTRAW A certain writer, returning one afternoon from rehearsal of his play, sat down in the hall of the hotel where he was staying.
What then is the reason of my existence? Am I but a windlestraw?" And wearied out with his perplexity, he fell into a doze.
What then is the reason of my existence? Am I but a windlestraw?” And wearied out with his perplexity, he fell into a doze.
They call their exercise a tournament, although in their whole exertions every blow is aimed behind the back, and not one has the courage to throw his windlestraw while he perceives that of another pointed against himself." "Such is their custom," said Agelastes; "not perhaps so much from cowardice as from habit, in exercising before his Imperial Majesty.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1979).