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Star in the handle of the Big Dipper
Answer for the clue "Star in the handle of the Big Dipper ", 6 letters:
alioth
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alioth \Al"i*oth\, n. [Ar. aly[=a]t the tail of a fat sheep.] (Astron.) A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.
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Alioth is a FusionForge system run by the Debian project for development of free software and free documentation, especially software or documentation to do with Debian. Most of the projects hosted by Alioth are packaging existing software in the Debian ...
Usage examples of alioth.
Mizar replied, as Alioth darted through the gate to settle upon a flower which immediately began to droop.
He was not sure why, but Alioth had indicated that something was funny.
Mizar's brain was scrambled and Alioth—well, Alioth was something else.
I was tending to my realm when Alioth brought me word that two intruders had come to Deep Fields.
Where Alioth's wings flapped, blossoms speckled, cracked, and turned to dust.
Ayradyss swung the Sword of Wind and Obsidian into Alioth's underbelly.
My mom took the job and then Seaga swiped her and she got wiped fighting ol' Alioth.
Beginning at the star in the upper outer edge of the rim of the bowl and running in regular order round the bottom and then out to the end of the handle, the names and letters are as follows: Dubhe ({\alpha}), Merak ({\beta}), Phaed ({\gamma}), Megrez ({\delta}), Alioth ({\epsilon}), Mizar ({\zeta}), and Benetnasch ({\eta}).
It would appear that Benetnasch and Dubhe belong to one ``current,'' and Merak, Phaed, Megrez, Alioth, and Mizar to the other.