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sax

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"Jazz band horn"

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3 lettersPronunciation /sæks/Part of speech nounSorted asxStarts with SEnds with X1 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2A3X

Definitions

  1. a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

Word origin

From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.

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