Crossword-Solution: GRAFTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grafter | n. | One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting. |
| Grafter | n. | An instrument by which grafting is facilitated. |
| Grafter | n. | The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GRAFTER | anagram | REGRAFT |
We have 3 clues for the answer “GRAFTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Corrupt politician. | 1 answer |
| Maker of illicit profit. | 1 answer |
| Gadget for Parmesan | 2 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
ZMACEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GRAFTER (5)
After all, he is a grafter, Earns his cheer -- Keeps the room in roars of laughter When he gets outside a beer.
They had had a family squabble, the other apex of the triangle being a circus grafter who "shibbolethed" at some of the "brace games," which at that time had police protection, so far as that could be given.
But nature herself, Mother of things, was the first seed-sower And primal grafter; since the berries and acorns, Dropping from off the trees, would there beneath Put forth in season swarms of little shoots; Hence too men's fondness for ingrafting slips Upon the boughs and setting out in holes The young shrubs o'er the fields.
But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other? It's no place for an honest grafter with a small capital.
Collateral bills were introduced enabling the company to widen and grade any streets, the favorite "job" of a Tammany grafter.
Quotes with GRAFTER (2)
I'd like you to see that we are interfering too drastically. WE can't just assume so completely that Azerbaijan is in the hands of dangerous men and vicious Bolsheviks. I suppose it's all in the way you see Iran. I'd like you to see that Iranians are just as serious about their politics as we are: perhaps more so. The Iranian is a vigorous individual with definite ideas about the right and wrong done to him. It's easy for these journalists to laugh at the idea of political sp…
Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1955–2023).