Crossword-Solution: APPUI
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Appui | n. | A support or supporter; a stay; a prop. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| APPUI | anagram | PAIUP |
We have 2 clues for the answer “APPUI”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Support, in Sedan | 1 answer |
| Support: Fr. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APPUI (5)
The nag being represented in a rampant or rearing posture, the tail, which is prolonged till it touches the ground, appears to form a _point d’appui_, and gives the firmness of a tripod to the figure, without which it would be difficult to conceive, placed as the feet are, how the courser could maintain his ground without tumbling backwards.
Strategical points d’appui differ from tactical in these two respects, that the army need not be in immediate contact with them, and that, on the other hand, they must be of greater extent.
Fortresses will become strategic points d’appui, according as they are large, and afford a wide sphere of action for offensive combinations.
Now to prevent this being easily done, _points d’appui_ were sought for these lines, which should give them a certain degree of support on the side, such as the Rhine and the Vosges give the lines in Alsace.
How it obtains this defensive power, by obstacles to approach, _points d’appui_ for its flanks, and new positions which it finds on its retreat, is a subject for tactics to explain; we accept it as an established fact.
Quotes with APPUI (1)
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry, -- determined to make a day of it. Why should we knock under and go with the stream? Let us not be upset and overwhelmed in that terrible rapid and whirlpool called a dinner, situated…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1960–1992).