Crossword-Solution: SHIPWORM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shipworm | n. | Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Boat owner's bane | 1 answer |
| type of wormlike marine bivalve mollusc | 1 answer |
| Teredo | 3 answers |
| Borer | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SHIPWORM (5)
Sir Isambert Brunel took his first lessons in forming the Thames Tunnel from the tiny shipworm: he saw how the little creature perforated the wood with its well-armed head, first in one direction and then in another, till the archway was complete, and then daubed over the roof and sides with a kind of varnish; and by copying this work exactly on a large scale, Brunel was at length enabled to construct his shield and accomplish his great engineering work.
There was nothing of which the Norsemen were more afraid than of the _teredo_, or shipworm, which gnaws the wood of ships.
During certain seasons the pots are badly eaten by "worms," the shipworm (Teredo) or one of the species of small boring crustaceans.
Sir Isambard Brunel took his first lessons in forming the Thames Tunnel from the tiny shipworm: he saw how the little creature perforated the wood with its well-armed head, first in one direction and then in another, till the archway was complete, and then daubed over the roof and sides with a kind of varnish; and by copying this work exactly on a large scale, Brunel was at length enabled to construct his shield and accomplish his great engineering work.
They lingered in the island's reef- bound harbor almost three weeks while Winston careened the _Defiance_ and stripped away her barnacles, scorched the lower planks with burning branches to kill shipworm, then caulked all her leaky seams with hemp and pitch.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2002).