Crossword-Solution: PROMONTORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Promontory | n. | A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape. |
| Promontory | n. | A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “PROMONTORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water | 1 answer |
| Historic Utah rail site | 1 answer |
| naze | 3 answers |
| foreland | 9 answers |
| mounting | 13 answers |
| Ness | 15 answers |
| Headland | 19 answers |
| Precipice | 21 answers |
| Cliff | 25 answers |
| LAND elevation | 26 answers |
| neck | 28 answers |
| Platform | 39 answers |
| Cape | 42 answers |
| PROTRUSION of land into sea | 45 answers |
| PROTUBERANCE of land into sea | 45 answers |
| PROJECTION of land into sea | 45 answers |
| PORTION of land jutting out into sea | 45 answers |
| PIECE of land jutting out into sea | 46 answers |
| POINT of high land jutting out into sea | 46 answers |
| LAND projecting into the sea | 46 answers |
| LAND jutting out into sea | 46 answers |
| peninsula | 57 answers |
| Chunk | 57 answers |
| bluff | 74 answers |
| Bill | 97 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PROMONTORY (5)
There on the promontory, against the cream-colored cliff, were two figures nimbly moving in the light, both slender and agile, entirely absorbed in their game.
Thurid was hugging the shore, and as he passed out of sight round a near-by promontory I shoved one of the boats into the water and, calling Woola into it, pushed out from shore.
Beyond a low promontory of what once had been an island the green men were disappearing toward the west.
Quickly lighting the pyre in a dozen places, he hurried to the extreme point of the promontory, where he stripped off his shirt, and, tying it to a fallen branch, stood waving it back and forth above him.
Thus he stood, his gaze riveted upon the Kincaid until it disappeared beyond a projecting promontory of the coast.
Quotes with PROMONTORY (3)
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's b…
The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms. We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible. This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape. In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–1981).