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WISH |
It’s made at 11:11 |
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GRUYERE CHEESE |
A kind of cheese made at Gruyere, Switzerland. It is
a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United
States as Schweitzerkase. |
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CABLE |
A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used
to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of
hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links. |
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TUNIC |
An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes.
It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and
was confined at the waist by a girdle. |
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HORNPIPE |
An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales,
consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called
because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn. |
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WOOLD |
To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a
mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been
fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it. |
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WILTON CARPET |
A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels,
but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic
velvet pile; -- so ... |
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SPLAY |
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or
window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall
than at the other, o... |
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HOE |
A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth
about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron
or steel ha... |
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GASOMETER |
An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas
works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end
immersed in water,... |
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CHECK |
A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such
a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were
any other p... |
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PHONAUTOGRAPH |
An instrument by means of which a sound can be made
to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially
of a resonant vesse... |
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PENTECOST |
A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because
celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of
the Passover (which fe... |
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BISSEXTILE |
Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added
to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year
(365 d. 5 h. 48 m.... |
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ONTHEJOB |
Working at it |
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PERSIST |
Keep at it |
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SCAR |
It’s made from scratch |
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WELCOMED |
Made to feel at home |
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BED |
It’s made after it’s used? |
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EYESORE |
It’s ugly to look at |
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BIT |
A horse may champ at it |
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MAO |
Red jacket made at Oxford, originally |
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OZONE |
Layer, Dorothy visited it at one |
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SURFS |
Sometimes it’s up at the beach? |
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HAMMER |
Go at it ... and tongs |