Crossword-Solution: ESCAPEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Escapement | n. | The act of escaping; escape. |
| Escapement | n. | Way of escape; vent. |
| Escapement | n. | The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “ESCAPEMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| mechanical device that regulates movement | 1 answer |
| Part of watch mechanism | 1 answer |
| Part of a watch, typewriter or piano | 1 answer |
| Getaway | 12 answers |
| Breakout? | 17 answers |
| Watch part | 22 answers |
| Lam | 27 answers |
| Clock part | 27 answers |
| Pummel | 30 answers |
| Drub | 30 answers |
| Pelt | 32 answers |
| Paste | 40 answers |
| escaping | 44 answers |
| Wallop | 47 answers |
| BATTER ___ | 49 answers |
| Hammer | 50 answers |
| Outlet | 55 answers |
| POUND | 58 answers |
| Flight | 71 answers |
| Slip | 85 answers |
| Escape | 87 answers |
| BEAT ___ | 125 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ESCAPEMENT (5)
She was the cutup of the escapement department at the watch factory; the older woman's lips sagged at the corners.
Tessie Golden could say things to the escapement-room foreman that anyone else would have been fired for.
Nap Ballou, the foreman, never left the escapement room without a little shiver of nervous apprehension--a feeling justified by the ripple of suppressed laughter that went up and down the long tables.
Once Old Man Hatton interrupted with: "So that's the kind of fellow they've got as escapement-room foreman, eh?" Tessie, whose mind was working very clearly now, put out a quick hand.
Sir Edmund Denison Beckett says that he invented this method in order to save himself the trouble of going so frequently to oil the escapement of a turret clock, of which he had charge; though there were other influences at work besides this.
Quotes with ESCAPEMENT (1)
His existence had always been comfortable, he had always held a clear picture of himself, his duties, and his place in a world. He saw that world as a place so full of turning gears he had no hope of comprehending how things fit together, so why even try? Now things were different, however. Now he wasn’t just looking out from inside of the clockwork. Instead, he was actually seeing the final motion of the escapement — the ticking hands of the clock itself. And it was a doomsd…
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2014).