Crossword Clue: Hem but not haw?
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Quick Answer List
- sew (3 letters)
- hedge (5 letters)
- stall (5 letters)
- hemming (7 letters)
- hrm (3 letters)
- welt (4 letters)
- dodge (5 letters)
- sewed (5 letters)
- roughness (9 letters)
- lay (3 letters)
- malacology (10 letters)
- haver (5 letters)
- expressionism (13 letters)
- inception (9 letters)
- transposon (10 letters)
- dither (6 letters)
- stammer (7 letters)
- waffle (6 letters)
- collateral (10 letters)
- uncertain (9 letters)
Detailed Explanations
sew (3 letters)
Definition:
- v (transitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
- v (intransitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.
- v (transitive) Followed by into: to enclose by sewing.
Match Types: Datamuse
hedge (5 letters)
Definition:
- n A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- n A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- n (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
Match Types: Datamuse
stall (5 letters)
Definition:
- n (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- n A stable; a place for cattle.
- n A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
Match Types: Datamuse
hemming (7 letters)
Definition:
- n The act of saying "hem", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
- n A surname.
- n Old English hemming (“a rawhide boot”)
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hrm (3 letters)
Definition:
- n (business, management) Initialism of Human resource management.
- n (Philippines, business, management) Initialism of hotel and restaurant management.
- n Initialism of Halifax Regional Municipality, a regional municipality in and capital of Nova Scotia.
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welt (4 letters)
Definition:
- v (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve
- n A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.
- n (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
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dodge (5 letters)
Definition:
- v (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- v (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
- v (archaic) To go hither and thither.
Match Types: Datamuse
sewed (5 letters)
Definition:
adj Having been created through the sewing process.
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roughness (9 letters)
Definition:
- n The property of being rough, coarseness.
- n Something that is rough; a rough spot.
- n (US) Roughage; coarse fodder.
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lay (3 letters)
Definition:
- v (transitive)
- v To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- v (archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
Match Types: Datamuse
malacology (10 letters)
Definition:
n (zoology) The study of molluscs.
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haver (5 letters)
Definition:
- v (Britain) To hem and haw.
- v (Scotland) To talk foolishly; to chatter.
- n (UK, Scotland, dialect) Oats (the cereal).
Match Types: Datamuse
expressionism (13 letters)
Definition:
- n A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences
- n A somewhat analogous genre in early 20th century music
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inception (9 letters)
Definition:
- n The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.
- n A layering, nesting, or recursion of something.
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transposon (10 letters)
Definition:
n (genetics) A segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to the genome of another species.
Match Types: Datamuse
dither (6 letters)
Definition:
- v To tremble, shake, or shiver with cold.
- v To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something.
- v To do something nervously.
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stammer (7 letters)
Definition:
- v (intransitive) To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
- v (transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.
- n The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.
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waffle (6 letters)
Definition:
- n (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- n (countable, Britain) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- n (construction, also attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
Match Types: Datamuse
collateral (10 letters)
Definition:
- adj Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
- adj Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- adj Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
Match Types: Datamuse
uncertain (9 letters)
Definition:
- adj Not certain; unsure.
- adj Not known for certain; questionable.
- adj Not yet determined; undecided.
Match Types: Datamuse
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