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Smooth Thread Crossword Clue

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noun

• a fabric woven with lisle thread

• a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton)

29%11 Fine and smooth thread used for embroidery
noun

• a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton)

27%6 Right up inside smooth thread
noun

• a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole

• a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels

• line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

• a necklace made by stringing objects together

• a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

• a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

verb

• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue

• drive (a vessel) ashore

• bring to the ground

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