Crossword-Solution: PERN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pern | v. t. | To take profit of; to make profitable. |
| Pern | n. | The honey buzzard. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PERN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of ___" | 1 answer |
| Anne McCaffrey's dragon land | 1 answer |
| Anne McCaffrey's dragon world | 1 answer |
| Anne McCaffrey's land | 1 answer |
| Honey buzzard | 1 answer |
| Honey-buzzard. | 1 answer |
| Planet of dragonriders, in books by Anne McCaffrey | 1 answer |
| type of buzzard | 1 answer |
| Buzzard. | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERN (5)
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
Guynemer de la Hélandière inaugurated, in September, 1869, the Tour Saint-Joseph, house of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Saint-Pern.] Here, thanks to an unusual circumstance, oral tradition takes the place of writings, charters, and puzzling trifles.
Jaunting, journeying To his own dayspring, He unpacks the loaded pern Of all 'twas pain or joy to learn, Of all that he had made.
When I was a child at Sligo I could see above my grandfather's trees a little column of smoke from "the pern mill," and was told that "pern" was another name for the spool, as I was accustomed to call it, on which thread was wound.
All my dreams were of ships; and one day a sea captain who had come to dine with my grandfather put a hand on each side of my head and lifted me up to show me Africa, and another day a sea captain pointed to the smoke from the Pern mill on the quays rising up beyond the trees of the lawn, as though it came from the mountain, and asked me if Ben Bulben was a burning mountain.
Quotes with PERN (3)
But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out. For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but my dark secret was that really, I preferred the junk. The Dragonriders of Pern, Flowers in the Attic, The Clan of the Cave Bear. This stuff was like my stash of Playboys under the mattress.
I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1943–2018).