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Word entry · 3 letters

lid

Best crossword clue

"Cover"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /lɪd/Part of speech nounSorted dilStarts with LEnds with D8 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).

Used in a sentence

  • Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
  • the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders
  • But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

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Used as a crossword answer8 curated clues

01Cover3 letters
02Cover for a jar3 letters
03Cover for a pot3 letters
04Jar cover3 letters
05Top for a container3 letters
06Top for a jar3 letters
07Top of a jar3 letters
08Container cover3 letters

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