Crossword-Solution: SPRAG
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sprag | n. | A young salmon. |
| Sprag | n. | A billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop. |
| Sprag | v. t. | To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. |
| Sprag | v. t. | To prop or sustain with a sprag. |
| Sprag | a. | See Sprack, a. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPRAG | anagram | GRASP |
We have 25 clues for the answer “SPRAG”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Miner's roof prop | 1 answer |
| device used to prevent a vehicle from running backwards on an incline | 1 answer |
| Wheel chock. | 1 answer |
| Wedge stuck under a wheel | 1 answer |
| Wedge placed beneath a wheel | 1 answer |
| Wagon prop | 1 answer |
| WOOD check wheel motion | 1 answer |
| Roof prop in a coal mine | 1 answer |
| Prop in a mine | 1 answer |
| Pointed rod to keep a vehicle from running backward. | 1 answer |
| Piece serving as a prop or brake | 1 answer |
| Piece of wood to block a wheel. | 1 answer |
| Piece of wood for blocking a wheel. | 1 answer |
| Mine-roof prop | 1 answer |
| Mine roof prop | 1 answer |
| Chock of wood | 1 answer |
| Brake of a sort | 1 answer |
| Block used as a chock. | 1 answer |
| Billet of wood. | 1 answer |
| BRAKING chock | 1 answer |
| DEVICE to stop turning wheel | 2 answers |
| Mine support | 2 answers |
| Wedge placed under a wheel. | 2 answers |
| Young codfish | 3 answers |
| TIMBER prop | 3 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SPRAG (5)
Collins shows that the Headmaster was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and describes the nature of the education, mainly in Latin, as, according to the standard of the period, it ought to have been.* There is no doubt that if Shakespeare attended the school (the age of entry was eight), minded his book, and had ‘a good sprag memory,’ he might have learned Latin.
You can gang back to your tippy wee baggage! Gang to hell, baith you an' her, an' joy be wi' you baith! But I'll put a sprag in your wheel afore you gang far.
EZRA: A son--a thief! I’ll have the law of him: I’ll sprag his wheel: for all his pretty pace, He’ll come a cropper yet, the scrunty wastrel.
For all that, it's a sheer impossibility that you should guess who put a sprag in the wheel of Hilton's chariot.
SPRAG, sprag, _n._ a piece of wood used to lock a wheel: a punch-prop in mining.--_v.t._ to prop, or to stop, by a sprag.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1944–2017).