Crossword-Solution: SAMPLER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sampler | n. | One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler. |
| Sampler | n. | A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SAMPLER | anagram | PALMERS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
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greedy person
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Sentences with SAMPLER (5)
With her near-sightedness, and those tremulous fingers of hers, at once inflexible and delicate, she could not be a seamstress; although her sampler, of fifty years gone by, exhibited some of the most recondite specimens of ornamental needlework.
XIV And beside these and others of our day, Who gave you once, or give you now renown, This for yourselves ye may yourselves purvey: For many, laying silk and sampler down, With the melodious Muses, to allay Their thirst at Aganippe's well, have gone, And still are going; who so fairly speed, That we more theirs than they our labour need.
Then there is a "sampler" worked by some idiot related to the family, a picture of the "Huguenots," two or three Scripture texts, and a highly framed and glazed certificate to the effect that the father has been vaccinated, or is an Odd Fellow, or something of that sort.
And for the young woman that he provided for me, I thought it more fitting for her to learn her sampler and make dirt-pies than to look after a husband; for my part I was none of her man.
Fair Philomela, why she but lost her tongue, And in a tedious sampler sewed her mind; But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee; A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met, And he hath cut those pretty fingers off That could have better sewed than Philomel.
Quotes with SAMPLER (3)
Several times we had been very close to "it," but "it" just never quite happened. She always drew back, and I never pressed her. God help me, I was being gallant. I have wondered often since what would have changed (for good or for ill) had I not been. What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.
As Liljana sat stitching a sampler or darning a sock, she dreamed her way into life as a grown woman with her own household to run, her own home to tidy, her own children to mind, and her own husband to cheer after a long day's work as they sat together by the fire. The life that future generations would dismiss as dull and degrading offered Liljana the liberating prospect of being mistress in her own home rather than living to serve others.
What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 34 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).