Crossword-Solution: TUFT 4 letters, 113 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Tuft	n.	A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
Tuft	n.	A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
Tuft	n.	A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them.
Tuft	v. t.	To separate into tufts.
Tuft	v. t.	To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
Tuft	v. i.	To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.

We have 113 clues for the answer “TUFT”

Clue	Answers
A dense clump of grass	1 answer
Bird's crest.	1 answer
Bit of grass or hair	1 answer
Bit of hair standing up	1 answer
Bunch of grass	1 answer
Bunch of hair or feathers	1 answer
Bunch of hair, feathers, grass, etc.	1 answer
Bunch of hairs	1 answer
Bunch of strands	1 answer
Bunched cluster	1 answer
CLUSTER OF FEATHERS	1 answer
Clump in a salon	1 answer
Clump of bushes	1 answer
Clump of dune grass	1 answer
Clump of feathers	1 answer
Clump of grass or hair	1 answer
Clump on a lawn	1 answer
Cluster of hair	1 answer
Cluster, as of feathers	1 answer
Cluster, as of flowers	1 answer
Cluster, as of grass	1 answer
Cockatoo crest	1 answer
Cockatoo's crest	1 answer
Dense clump of trees or bushes	1 answer
Elvis's haircut	1 answer
End of a lion's tail	1 answer
Feather clump	1 answer
Feather cluster	1 answer
Feathery cluster	1 answer
Feature of many a bird	1 answer
Feature of some capuchin monkeys	1 answer
Goatee, sort of	1 answer
Hair cluster	1 answer
Hairy bunch	1 answer
Hairy clump	1 answer
Lion's tail feature	1 answer
Macaroni penguin feature	1 answer
Pompom, e.g.	1 answer
Prominent bit of hair	1 answer
Punk hairdo feature	1 answer
SECURE padding of cushion/mattress	1 answer
Small bunch of grass, hair, etc.	1 answer
Small clump	1 answer
Small clump of grass	1 answer
Small cluster, as of threads	1 answer
Small grass patch	1 answer
Soft cluster	1 answer
Tail end of a lion's tail	1 answer
Tam-o'-shanter feature	1 answer
The end of a lion's tail	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AERET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with TUFT (5)

Then the grateful Hiawatha Called the Mama, the woodpecker, From his perch among the branches Of the melancholy pine-tree, And, in honor of his service, Stained with blood the tuft of feathers On the little head of Mama; Even to this day he wears it, Wears the tuft of crimson feathers, As a symbol of his service.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Bathsheba, overcome by a hundred tumultuous feelings resulting from the scene, abstractedly sat down on a tuft of heather.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Next rose before her in memory’s picture-gallery, the intricate and narrow thoroughfares, the tall, grey houses, the huge cathedrals, and the public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, still in connexion with the misshapen scholar: a new life, but feeding itself on time-worn materials, like a tuft of green moss on a crumbling wall.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

While she curiously examined its hereditary marks,—the peculiar speckle of its plumage, the funny tuft on its head, and a knob on each of its legs,—the little biped, as she insisted, kept giving her a sagacious wink.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Various kinds of isis, clusters of pure tuft-coral, prickly fungi, and anemones formed a brilliant garden of flowers, enamelled with porphitæ, decked with their collarettes of blue tentacles, sea-stars studding the sandy bottom, together with asterophytons like fine lace embroidered by the hands of naïads, whose festoons were waved by the gentle undulations caused by our walk.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

Quotes with TUFT (3)

One picture puzzle piece Lyin' on the sidewalk, One picture puzzle piece Soakin' in the rain. It might be a button of blue On the coat of the woman Who lived in a shoe. It might be a magical bean, Or a fold in the red Velvet robe of a queen. It might be the one little bite Of the apple her stepmother Gave to Snow White. It might be the veil of a bride Or a bottle with some evil genie inside. It might be a small tuft of hair On the big bouncy belly Of Bobo the Bear. It might b…

Shel Silverstein

And there was nothing left for me to do, but go. Though the things of the world were strong with me still. Such as, for example: a gaggle of children trudging through a side-blown December flurry; a friendly match-share beneath some collision-tilted streetlight; a frozen clock, bird-visited within its high tower; cold water from a tin jug; toweling off one’s clinging shirt post — June rain. Pearls, rags, buttons, rug-tuft, beer-froth. Someone’s kind wishes for you; someone re…

George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo

What is he to learn? To imitate? Or to avoid? When your friends the bees worry themselves about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement, are we men to learn the greatness of Tuft-hunting, or the littleness of the Court Circular? I am not clear, Mr. Boffin, but that the hive may be satirical.'At all events, they work,' said Mr. Boffin. Ye-es,' returned Eugene, disparagingly, 'they work; but don't you think they overdo it?

Charles Dickens

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 126 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).