Crossword-Solution: SINKER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sinker | n. | One who, or that which, sinks. |
| Sinker | n. | A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it. |
| Sinker | n. | In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SINKER | anagram | INKERS, KINERS, REINKS, RESINK, RESKIN, RESNIK, SERKIN |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SINKER (5)
Now you see, I put me sinker on the ind of the thrid, no hook of course, for practice, and I touch this little spring here, and give me little rod a whip and away goes me bait, slick as grase.
The sinker shot above and behind him and became entangled in the eaves, while yards of the fine silk line flew off the spinning reel and dropped in tangled masses at his feet, and in an effort to do something Jimmy reversed the reel and it wound back on tangles and all until it became completely clogged.
The geologist made his calculations, and said: "You will go through so many feet of Bagshot sand; and so many feet of London clay; and so many feet of the Thanet beds between them and the chalk: and then you will win water, at about 412 feet; but not, I think, till then." The well-sinker laughed at that, and said, "He had no opinion of geologists, and such-like.
The poor manufacturer spent hundreds of pounds more in trying to get the sand out, but in vain; and he had at last to make a fresh and much larger well by the side of the old one, bewailing the day when he listened to the well-sinker and not to the geologist, and so threw away more than a thousand pounds.
How finely-tempered they must be, not to be blunted by this well-sinker's work and to do duty presently in the surgical operation of stabbing the neck! I have said that the repairs and extensions of the burrow are made at long intervals.
Quotes with SINKER (2)
Jack must have looked confused, and Sienna leaned closer to him as she explained. Her perfume was sharp and floral, and he took a deep breath, enjoying the fresh fragrance after a day on the road smelling dust and tar.“When we were in high school, Uncle Renzo brought us down here to the pier at Monterey for a birthday dinner, and he spun Georgie a story about his grandmother going to sleep at the table when he was a little boy, and drowning in her chowder.” Jack grinned as Si…
Tanned, toned, curves in the right places and that small waist…lips, hair, eyes all packaged up like a siren. If she’s a siren, I heard her call, and I’m diving in hook, line, and sinker. - Drew Donovan
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 29 times in crossword archives (1970–2023).