Crossword clues for threaded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thread \Thread\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Threaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Threading.]
To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
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To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus.
--Mitford.They would not thread the gates.
--Shak. To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Wiktionary
1 Having threads. 2 (context Internet English) (Of messages) Arranged in a thread. v
(en-past of: thread)
WordNet
adj. (of bolts or screws) having screw threads
Usage examples of "threaded".
He shoved his load of slates into the hands of the stupefied slave who followed him and, in atypical haste, threaded a path through a room suddenly filled with armed men.
How insensibly new lights broke in upon him, as he threaded the labyrinth of cause and effect, by which we seek to arrive at that curious and biform monster--our own nature.
As related in the opening chapter, the 21 ships of the Force threaded their way through Bungo Strait at about noon and by nightfall were well into the Pacific, forging southeastward in circular cruising disposition.
The Caermelor Road had threaded its way through farmlands, past garths and granges, crofts and byres, alongside hedged meadows where cattle pondered or shepherds with crosiers in hand followed their flocks, past pitch-roofed haystacks, ponds teeming with ducks, tilled patches of worts in leafy rows, and burgeoning fields of einkorn, emmer, and spelt where hoop-backed reapers toiled, by vineyards glutted with overflow of clammy juice and moss-trunked orchards already ravished, the last windfalls rotting on the ground, their sweet decay choired by sucking insects.
Tamar cut a piece of thread and threaded her needle, and Erdene helped her orient her pieces to put them together properly.
He threaded his way quietly through the tables, beginning with the one at which Makian, Hennes, and two others sat.
Minogue followed him, noting the head and shoulders down on Hoey as he threaded through to the doors.
Brown hair, threaded with gray, she stared at Janney her warm, green eyes sparkled with curious interest.
While Arpiar and Rafael debated the hallucinogenic properties of jook and other drugs that Pedar had been fond of, Hanuman threaded his way down the steps.
Arpiar and Rafael debated the hallucinogenic properties of jook and other drugs that Pedar had been fond of, Hanuman threaded his way down the steps.
It was threaded with rivers crossed by high bridges and, in the valleys and on the hillsides, mostly grown in what were clearly prosperous small or medium-sized holdings, coffee, kumquats, maize, avocado, peppers, with tomatoes and potatoes stacked by the roadside for collection, huge and red.
Wheeled vehicles were not used and armour, made both of mail and lamellae, or small metal strips threaded by leather thongs, was worn not only by the contingents traditionally furnished by nobles and high-ranking officials at the New Year tournaments but also by cavalry and infantry when it met the Younghusband Mission in 1903-4.
The Leine threaded its way through this in whatever way was most advantageous to the engineers.
From the general direction of the carrier, lobber rockets left bright thin trails that threaded the sky, then stitched the blackness ahead with flashes.
It was a netsuke of the eighteenth century, carved by Masanao of Kyoto, a toggle once used by the Japanese to hold the partitioned box which contained personal possessions, the cord between box and toggle threaded behind the sash.