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Homophone For Mettle Crossword Clue

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adjective

• containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal

noun

• any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

• a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten

verb

• cover with metal

29%4 A homophone for 'belle'
noun

• a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

• a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

• a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

• English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

• the sound of a bell being struck

• United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

• (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

• the shape of a bell

• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

• the flared opening of a tubular device

verb

• attach a bell to

29%9Homophone mystery involving words spelled the same but pronounced differently
noun

• two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair)

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New York Times02 Mar 1988 Across 34
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