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tie

Best crossword clue

"Draw in a contest"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /taɪ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eitStarts with TEnds with E13 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. form a knot or bow in

Word origin

From Middle English teye (“cord, chain”), from Old English tēag, tēah (“cord, chain”), from Proto-West Germanic *taugu, from Proto-Germanic *taugō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. Compare Danish tov, Icelandic taug.

Used in a sentence

  • “Oxford ties; Derby ties”
  • “[…] the tip of her russet boot almost grazed that of his Oxford tie.”
  • “the sacred ties of friendship or of duty”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer13 curated clues

01“Draw in a contest”3 letters
02“Draw on the scoreboard”3 letters
03“Equal finish”3 letters
04“Finish with equal scores”3 letters
05“Knot a neckwear item”3 letters
06“Knot for a neck”3 letters
07“Make the score even”3 letters
08“Neck accessory”3 letters
09“Neckwear for a suit”3 letters
10“Neckwear or draw”3 letters
11“Result with no winner”3 letters
12“Draw”3 letters
13“Draw or neckwear”3 letters

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