Crossword-Solution: LINCHPIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Linchpin | n. | A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “LINCHPIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Axle insert | 1 answer |
| pin to hold a wheel on its axle | 1 answer |
| pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on | 1 answer |
| Vital person or thing | 1 answer |
| Piece that holds the rest together | 1 answer |
| Person or thing essential to plan | 1 answer |
| Crucial unifying element | 1 answer |
| Crucial component | 1 answer |
| Critical element | 1 answer |
| An extremely important person | 1 answer |
| Key element | 2 answers |
| good right arm | 3 answers |
| forelock | 4 answers |
| Mainstay | 13 answers |
| Wheel part | 15 answers |
| Keystone | 16 answers |
| Essential Part | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LINCHPIN (5)
The fact that, before we started, I myself withdrew its linchpin goes to support this theory." "My poor father! Master Adam, I almost find it in my heart to hate you." "Believe me, fair but haughty, the old fool has taken no hurt.
From the way they were doing it, I shouldn't think they ever had." "But they will soon procure a new linchpin.
Away back in 1778 a linchpin had slipped in a wagon on the Wilderness Road and his grandfather's only brother, Chadwick Buford, had concluded to stop there for a while and hunt and come on later--thus ran an old letter that the Major had in his strong box at home--and that brother had never turned up again and the supposition was that he had been killed by Indians.
Theoretically, the Government should have paid for every shoe and linchpin, for every hand employed in the loading; but Government vouchers cash themselves slowly, and intelligent and efficient clerks write at great length, contesting unauthorised expenditures of eight annas.
Partridge bore all this patiently.” How many times, when, after rough usage from ill-mannered critics, my own vocabulary of vituperation was simmering in such a lively way that it threatened to boil and lift its lid and so boil over, those words have calmed the small internal effervescence! There is very little in them and very little of them; and so there is not much in a linchpin considered by itself, but it often keeps a wheel from coming off and prevents what might be a catastrophe.
Quotes with LINCHPIN (3)
The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can. The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job. Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. I call …
Consciousness and free will are necessary in order for human beings to live meaningful lives by supplying agency to our intentions. The innate capacity for consciousness and directed free will plays a linchpin role in making human curiosity a viable concept. We would lack an ability to learn without an inquisitive mind and the ability to act. A premeditated act of human free will enables us to apply what we learn and make calculated adjustments when our plans need alteration.…
Although the repetition of a word or phrase is a preparatory practice and is itself not meditation, choosing a word or phrase that honors your belief system can be the linchpin you need for your mediation practice, providing both motivation and philosophical coherency.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1998–2016).