Crossword-Solution: FORELOCK 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Word Word Type Definition
Forelock n. The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the
head.
Forelock n. A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent
retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun.

We have 6 clues for the answer “FORELOCK”

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WEDGE put through hole in bolt to keep it in place 1 answer
Linchpin 4 answers
Wedge 24 answers
Curl 30 answers
Hair __ 61 answers
Secure 93 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FORELOCK (5)

Just need go on board?” “We ought to weigh anchor before half an hour, your ladyship,” replied the old man, pulling at his grey forelock.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
There was no longer a place for him in life; he would never be seen again by mortal eye....There remained only the good Thorpe, the pleasant, well-intentioned opulent gentleman; the excellent citizen; the beneficent master, to whom, even Gafferson like the others, touched a respectful forelock.
The Market-Place Harold Frederic 2008
Seizing occasion by the forelock, I drew up as I came alongside and inquired what he had found to interest him.
St. Ives Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
Miss Pole told us she had absolutely taken time by the forelock, and been dressed by five o’clock, in order to be ready if the _St James’s Chronicle_ should come in at the last moment—the very _St James’s Chronicle_ which the powdered head was tranquilly and composedly reading as we passed the accustomed window this evening.
Cranford Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1995
While he talked, beating his hands and bowing before Ollypybus, Bradley, Jr., pulled his forelock to the consul, and told how this man lived on the far outskirts of the village; how he had been captured while out hunting, by a number of the Hillmen; and how he had escaped to tell the people that their old enemies were on the war-path again, and rapidly approaching the village.
The Reporter Who Made Himself King Richard Harding Davis 2008

Quotes with FORELOCK (2)

A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, as by the almanac, but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature's. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There i…
Henry David Thoreau
Seize time by the forelock.
Pittacus