Crossword-Solution: SHARPENER
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHARPENER | anagram | RESHARPEN |
We have 14 clues for the answer “SHARPENER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Device for making a point | 1 answer |
| Gadget on the cutting edge? | 1 answer |
| It makes a point in elementary school | 1 answer |
| It puts a point on a pencil | 1 answer |
| Largely byone testing room fixture | 1 answer |
| Pencil user's device | 1 answer |
| Strop or whetstone, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Whetstone, e.g. | 1 answer |
| any implement that is used to make something sharper | 1 answer |
| Classroom tool | 3 answers |
| Classroom fixture | 4 answers |
| Office gadget | 6 answers |
| Pencil | 8 answers |
| OFFICE machine | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHARPENER (5)
There is a standard joke about this that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.
The modern man will wave a cigarette instead of a stick; he will cut his pencil with a little screwing pencil-sharpener instead of a knife; and he will even boldly offer to be warmed by hot water pipes instead of a fire.
What's Eton but a nursery of wrong-righters, A mighty mother of effective men; A training ground for amateur reciters, A sharpener of the sword as of the pen; A factory of orators and fighters, A forcing-house of genius? Now and then The world at large shrinks back, abashed and beaten, Unable to endure the glare of Eton.
There is a standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.
War is not a sharpener of wits; and I am afraid I gave great offence by keeping my head in this matter of Irish recruiting.
Quotes with SHARPENER (3)
Can you sharpen this for me, please?” Logan leaned across the table and took the pencil from him. “You want me to play with your pencil, Tate?”“Hilarious. The sharpener is right by you. You just have to pick it up and slide it in.” As soon as the words left his mouth and Logan’s quirked into an arrogant line, Tate bit his tongue.“Really? Did you really just say that to me?” Feeling more comfortable than ever with Logan and this group, Tate shrugged and nodded. Time to give it…
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and…
The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful) the marble-topped tables, the smell of early morning, sweeping out and mopping, and luck were all you needed. For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1983–2013).