Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Ellen who won three Emmys between 1973 and 1976 ", 5 letters:
corby

Word definitions for corby in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corbie \Cor"bie\ or Corby \Cor"by\ (k[^o]r"b[y^]), n.; pl. Corbies (-b[i^]z). [F. corbeau, OF. corbel, dim. fr. L. corvus raven.] (Zo["o]l.) The raven. [Scot.] (her.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge. Corbie crow , the carrion crow. [Scot.]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Corby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ambrose Corbie or Corby (1604–1649), English Jesuit, teacher and author Colleen Corby (born 1947), American model Ellen Corby (1911-199), American actress best known for playing Grandma Walton ...

Usage examples of corby.

Abrane, Chummy Potts, Brailstone, little Corby, were brighter comrades.

Corbier opened the door of her small, ochre-stuccoed cottage on Rue Douane and stood looking across at her brother for some moments, her thin face blank beneath the orange-and-black tignon.

But on another monitor he could see the bomb on the Ugly Duckling, and could see also why Corby had placed it under his own surveillance.

Corby brought you a note from me at the foot of a petition I believe, in the case of Dawson, to be executed to-day.

Corby moved outward through the body-window and touched each of the gawking tribesfolk deep in the brain, sparking the pineal gland and the olfactory nerve-lobes with kha.

Sir Meeson Corby had intimations of the disintegration of his country if a patent tramp burlesquing in those clothes could be permitted to amuse English ladies of high station, quite at home with them.

Then the drow dived headlong into the corbies ahead of him, his blades cutting in from every possible angle hit a dozen times before it ever launched a single swing, the first corby was quite dead before it even fell.

It wasn't comfortable attire for air travel, where the seat size, leg room and safety belt seemed designed to do roughly the opposite of a Corby Trouser Press, to say nothing of the constant precipitous fear that your in-flight meal, drink and tea or coffee (sir?