Crossword-Solution: RIMING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Riming | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Rime |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RIMING | anagram | MIRING |
We have 3 clues for the answer “RIMING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Poetaster's activity | 1 answer |
| Versifying: Var. | 1 answer |
| Having similar terminal sounds: var. | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RIMING (5)
Marry, I cannot show it in rime; I have tried: I can find out no rime to ‘lady’ but ‘baby’, an innocent rime; for ‘scorn,’ ‘horn’, a hard rime; for ‘school’, ‘fool’, a babbling rime; very ominous endings: no, I was not born under a riming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
That is, supposing we take words riming with love and king for our rimes, four lines must rime with love and four with king.
The kail’s het, an’ the cheirs is set, an’ yer denner’s waitin’ ye there.” It may have been already observed, that to Grizzie came not unfrequently an odd way of riming what she said.
And this was not all: the riming might have passed unperceived by others too, but for the accompanying tendency to rhythm as well.
The meter, also, is interesting--the Anglo-Saxon unrimed alliterative verse, but divided into long stanzas of irregular length, each ending in a 'bob' of five short riming lines.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1960–1992).