Crossword-Solution: JACQUARD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jacquard | a. | Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “JACQUARD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A fabric with woven pattern | 1 answer |
| Intricate fabric pattern | 1 answer |
| Intricate weave | 1 answer |
| Intricate-weave fabric | 1 answer |
| PRINTED fabric | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JACQUARD (5)
When you say a woman doesn’t invent anything, I ask, Who invented the Jacquard loom that wove every stitch you wear? Mrs.
Roberts's invention of the Jacquard punching machine--a self-acting tool of great power, used for punching any required number of holes, of any pitch and to any pattern, with mathematical accuracy, in bridge or boiler plates.
Roberts added a useful companion to the Jacquard punching machine, in his combined self-acting machine for shearing iron and punching both webs of angle or T iron simultaneously to any required pitch; though this machine, like others which have proceeded from his fertile brain, is ahead even of this fast-manufacturing age, and has not yet come into general use, but is certain to do so before many years have elapsed.
Aided by the Jacquard punching-machine of Roberts, the riveting of plates of the largest size has thus become one of the simplest operations in iron-manufacturing.
Jacquard was the son of a hard-working couple of Lyons, his father being a weaver, and his mother a pattern reader.
Quotes with JACQUARD (1)
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2013–2023).