Crossword-Solution: ARRESTMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Arrestment | n. | The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached. |
| Arrestment | n. | A stoppage or check. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “ARRESTMENT”
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| stoppage | 69 answers |
| Abatement | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ARRESTMENT (5)
Even sound has been included in Nature's arrestment, for, indeed, save the still white frost, all things seem to be obliterated.
This, I presume, is due to the continued disturbance of the impelling force by the arrestment of the movement at successive points; and we shall hereafter see that even shaking a plant retards the revolving movement.
But I hardly attended sufficiently to this point, and it would have been difficult to distinguish between a movement due to extremely dull irritability, from the arrestment of the lower part, whilst the upper part continued to move onwards.
Why did you not try to secure your debt by arrestment?- Because the proprietor's right of hypothec would cover the man's whole effects.
The cash was not forthcoming, and Sir John secured letters of horning and arrestment against them, and employed several officers to serve them, but they returned the letters unexecuted, not finding notum accessum in the Earl's country, and they refused altogether to undertake the duty again without the assistance of the King's forces in the district.