Crossword-Solution: WESTING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Westing | n. | The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WESTING | anagram | STEWING, TWINGES |
We have 3 clues for the answer “WESTING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Progress sailing from Oakland to Oahu | 1 answer |
| Sailing in a certain direction. | 1 answer |
| Following the sun. | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with WESTING (5)
When we were at sea, he kept a running account, in his head, of the ship's way--the number of knots and the courses; and if the courses did not vary much during the twenty-four hours, by taking the whole progress, and allowing so many eighths southing or northing, to so many easting or westing; he would make up his reckoning just before the captain took the sun at noon, and often came wonderfully near the mark.
The regular passage is far to the east around Staten Island, which means a loss of westing, and here, at the tip of the world, where the great west wind, unobstructed by any land, sweeps round and around the narrow girth of earth, westing is the thing that has to be fought for mile by mile and inch by inch.
And I know why the chart-makers have capitalized it, as, for instance, when I read “The Great West Wind Drift.” And I know why the _Sailing Directions_ advise: “_Whatever you do_, _make westing_! _make westing_!” And the West Wind and the drift of the West Wind will not permit the _Elsinore_ to make westing.
And no westing! We have been swept back three degrees of easting since the night our visitors came on board.
Never a day does the gray thin, or the snow-squalls cease that we do not sight ships, west-bound like ourselves, hove-to and trying to hold on to the meagre westing they possess.
Quotes with WESTING (2)
Sandy fidgeted with his pen. “There’s something I didn’t write down. Maybe I shouldn’t tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler… he’s a bookie.” No, he should not have told her. “A small-time operator, I’m sure, Mr. McSouthers,” the judge replied coldly. “It can have no bearing on the matter before us. Sam Westing manipulated people, cheated workers, bribed officials, stole ideas, but Sam Westing never smoked or drank or placed a bet. Give me a bookie any d…
When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1964–1998).