Crossword-Solution: BUSK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Busk | n. | A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset. |
| Busk | v. t. & i. | To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. |
| Busk | v. t. & i. | To go; to direct one's course. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “BUSK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Be a street singer, say | 1 answer |
| CREEK Indian festival | 1 answer |
| Improvise; perform for money in the street | 1 answer |
| Perform in the street for money | 1 answer |
| Perform in the subway, say | 1 answer |
| Perform on a street corner | 1 answer |
| Perform on sidewalks, in London | 1 answer |
| Perform on the streets | 1 answer |
| Piece of stiffening material. | 1 answer |
| Play music in a street in order to be given money by passersby | 1 answer |
| Play music in the subway, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Play on the sidewalk, maybe | 1 answer |
| What street performers do | 1 answer |
| play music in a public place and solicit money for it | 1 answer |
| corset stiffening | 2 answers |
| CORSET bone | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BUSK (5)
Busk, v.] Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; Ð with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
Then Hrut said to his wife, "If thou hast as much mind now to go to the Thing as thou saidst a while ago, busk thyself and ride along with me." She was not slow in getting herself ready, and then they all rode to the Thing.
Now you have either to row away at once, or to busk yourselves as quickly as ye can; but if ye win the day then I will lead you to all their store of goods." Gunnar gave him a golden finger-ring, and went afterwards to his men and told them that war-ships lay on the other side of the ness, "and they know all about us; so let us take to our arms and busk us well, for now there is gain to be got." Then they busked them; and just when they were `boun' they see ships coming up to them.
Indeed, her laudable anxiety to be tidy and compact in her own conscience as well as in the public eye, gave rise to one of her most startling evolutions, which was to grasp herself sometimes by a sort of wooden handle (part of her clothing, and familiarly called a busk), and wrestle as it were with her garments, until they fell into a symmetrical arrangement.
The same thing, under precisely the same name, figured in the toilets of our grandmothers, and hence, probably, the Scotch use of the verb to busk, or attire." {5} Miss Louisa Stuart Costello in 'Bearn and the Pyrenees.' {6} A custom which then existed in certain parts of France.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1958–2024).