Crossword clues for narrows
narrows
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Narrow \Nar"row\, n.; pl. Narrows. A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.
Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous
narrow.
--Gladstone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"narrow place in a river, etc.," 1630s, plural of narrow (n.).
Wiktionary
n. A narrow part of a navigable waterway. vb. (en-third-person singular of: narrow)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 971
Land area (2000): 1.279603 sq. miles (3.314156 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.055472 sq. miles (0.143672 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.335075 sq. miles (3.457828 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54904
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.331818 N, 80.808477 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24124
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Narrows
Wikipedia
A narrows is a restricted land or water passages. Most commonly a narrows is a strait, though it can also be a water gap.
A narrows may form where a stream passes through a tilted bed of hard rock lying between two softer beds: "[i]f the hard beds are vertical, so that their outcrop does not shift as erosion proceeds, a narrows is developed". Like a dam, this "raises the water level for a short distance upriver". A narrows is also typically a good location for trapping migrating fish. Furthermore, a narrows is "an important topographical feature for wind mixing", an effect where a wind chill may form ice while the surrounding temperature remains above freezing.
Narrows is an American mathcore band based in Seattle, but with members "spread out across both the United States and two continents." The band has been described as a supergroup, as its lineup includes Dave Verellen of Botch and members of bands including Unbroken, These Arms Are Snakes and Bullet Union. Narrows is a part-time band. All members have full-time jobs and are starting their own families.
Usage examples of "narrows".
This serrated range of peaks and canyons extended from back of North Vancouver, across Burrard Inlet, past The Narrows for several miles to the lighthouse promontory in the Bay of Georgia.
He followed his unconscious murderers in the direction of the frothing Narrows and the barrier rim of mountains.
It spread its greasy denseness through The Narrows and far out over the Bay of Georgia.
As he returned, the corpse and the three live men who had been in the air close to The Narrows had disappeared.
This was safely out of the tidal channel, but close to The Narrows on the harbor side.
Directly opposite Stanley Park Point on The Narrows was the broad sand-and-gravel bar marking the mouth of a creek.
Jim Narrows had passed the story down the wire until there were a lot of people laughing in Santa Fe and Las Vegas, and even Denver.
He had found occasion to shove Narrows around and had enjoyed taunting the older man.
Jim Narrows was not a vindictive man, but neither was he a man likely to forget.
He fancied that the cove at the narrows was the Perfume River, and the lighted boats were sampans gliding down to the South China Sea.
Tyson said, 'How about the night we were screwing in the rubber raft and we floated through the narrows into the lower cove?
Across the Narrows, a mile away where the bridge was anchored on the far shore of Staten Island, was Fort Wadsworth, which, like Hamilton, held an old coastal artillery battery, built to protect the sea approaches to New York Harbor.
Below he could see the new dining wing to his right, the Shore Parkway beyond that, then the Narrows, spanned by the Verrazano Bridge.
They drove down an incline towards the Narrows, passed a dock, and pulled up to the foreboding granite walls of Battery Weed.
The Narrows, according to the map, was a one-lane chute with twelve-foot high barricades on either side.