Crossword-Solution: RHUMB
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1942–2019).