Crossword-Solution: RHUMB 5 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Rhumb n. A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant
angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.

We have 10 clues for the answer “RHUMB”

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Any compass point 1 answer
Any point of the compass 1 answer
Any point on a mariner's compass 1 answer
Curve on the surface of a sphere 1 answer
Point of a mariner's compass. 1 answer
Point of mariner's compass. 1 answer
Straight line of navigation 1 answer
Point on a compass card. 3 answers
Point on a mariner's compass. 3 answers
compass point 23 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with RHUMB (5)

The bush-path began by wheeling westward, as though we were returning to Anenge-nenge; thence it struck south-eastwards, a rhumb from which it rarely deviated.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard F. Burton 2004
After a march of an hour and three quarters,'covering five indirect and three direct miles in a south-eastern rhumb, we reached Banza Nkaye, the royal village, where the sympiesometer showed 1430 feet.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard F. Burton 2004
After the gape of the Ancobra River the foreshore gradually bends for a few miles from a west-east to a north-south rhumb, and forms a bay within a bay.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron 2006
The Nánwá must rise near the trial-shaft, which we are about to visit, and it snakes through the property in all directions with a general rhumb from west-north-west to east-south-east.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron 2006
Swinging a ship to every point of bearing, to note the variation or error of the needle upon each rhumb, due to the local attraction of the iron, or the mass, on each separate compass bearing.
The Sailor's Word-Book William Henry Smyth 2008
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1942–2019).