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Answer for the clue "Versatile game piece ", 5 letters:
queen
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Word definitions for queen in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cwen "queen, female ruler of a state, woman, wife," from Proto-Germanic *kwoeniz (cognates: Old Saxon quan "wife," Old Norse kvaen , Gothic quens ), ablaut variant of *kwenon (source of quean ), from PIE *gwen- "woman, wife" supposedly originally ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Queen was a Canadian automobile manufactured in Toronto between 1901 and 1903 by the Queen City Cycle & Motor Works. The car was a 4-seater powered by an 823cc single-cylinder engine mounted under the front seat. The clutch and gearbox were so rough ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A female monarch. Example: (w: Queen Victoria) 2 The wife or widow of a king. 3 (context chess English) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. 4 (context card games English) A playing card ...
Usage examples of queen.
But so please you I will not abide till then, but will kneel to him and to his Lady and Queen here and now.
O Queen Rabesqurat, the haven of our voyage was Aklis, and we feared delay, seeing the fire of the mountain ablaze with expectations of us.
I can assure you I have quite a lot at my disposal all kinds of different spells fee faw fums, mumbo jumbos, abraxas, love potions, he glanced quickly at the queen here and added, though I see you have no need of the last of those, having a very beautiful wife whom you love to distraction.
We will bring Sir Addis and Moira nothing but trouble, and the enmity of the Queen and Mortimer.
Meanwhile James addressed a letter to several lords who had been formerly members of his council, as well as to divers ladies of quality and distinction, intimating the pregnancy of his queen, and requiring them to attend as witnesses at the labour.
The lord-keeper delivered to the house a message from the queen, desiring they would adjourn to the fourteenth day of the month.
The anti-courtiers alleged, that the queen could not send a message to any one house to adjourn, but ought to have directed it to both houses.
The lords and commons having adjourned themselves to the last day of December, the queen closed the year with triumphal processions.
Having voted an application to the queen in behalf of the distressed Catalans, the house adjourned itself to the last day of March.
But she was not Moon, she was the ageless Queen of Winter, and as he watched her deal with the off worlders and nobles who came before her at court that truth was made plain to him over and over.
Ebon Rih, meeting with the Queens who ruled the Rihlander Blood villages of Doun and Agio, and talking to the council members who ran the larger landen villages.
Severeemish, in part through the queen of Agora, had been couched in terms of blood and lineage.
The alchemical symbolism is lavish: base and precious metals, kings and queens.
Chataya has no cause to love the queen, though, and she knows that she has you to thank for ridding her of Allar Deem.
I thought you had been made almoner, or something like that, to the Queen.