Crossword-Solution: THORNBACK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Thornback | n. | A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back. |
| Thornback | n. | The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado). |
We have 6 clues for the answer “THORNBACK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| EUROPEAN skate | 1 answer |
| European ray with a row of spines along the back and tail | 1 answer |
| Skate | 9 answers |
| Ray | 36 answers |
| FISH, type of | 73 answers |
| Fish. | 115 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THORNBACK (5)
She foundered at sea, whether going or returning is not said; in consequence, we are told, of injuries received from the stroke of a whale, of the thornback species.
Through the glass, high above his head, and not far from the surface, he saw a huge thornback, bending toward them and seeming to look down on them, as it flew slowly through the water--the action of the two sides of its body fringed with fins, and its consequent motion, were much more like the act of flying than that of swimming.
The boy gave a curious half-sad smile, without turning his eyes from the thornback, and said nothing.
This gulf abounds with delicious fish; as the _sarde_ (pilchard) red fish, cod, sturgeon, ringed thornback, and many other sorts, the best in their kind.
Barbel, brill, carp, cockles, cod, crabs, cray-fish, dabs, dace, eels, flounders, haddocks, herrings, lampreys, ling, lobsters, mussels, oysters, perch, pike, plaice, prawns, salmon, shrimps, skate, smelts, soles, sturgeon, tench, thornback, turbot, whiting.