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Ball on a chain?
Answer for the clue "Ball on a chain? ", 4 letters:
bead
Alternative clues for the word bead
Word definitions for bead in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES beads of perspiration (= drops ) ▪ He wiped the beads of perspiration from his brow. beads of sweat (= drops of sweat ) ▪ There were beads of sweat on his forehead. worry beads COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE small ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., bede "prayer bead," from Old English gebed "prayer," with intensive or collective prefix *ge- + Proto-Germanic *bidam "entreaty" (cognates: Middle Dutch bede , Old High German beta , German bitte , Gothic bida "prayer, request"), from PIE *gwhedh- ...
Usage examples of bead.
He vaguely remembered that Clodius Afer had said something about wine as the Main Gallery lowered itself after the assembly, and then the two of them had gone off after a bead of orange light.
Clodius Afer said nonchalantly to the ceiling, where a yellow bead obediently sprang to life.
The crucial comparison is between B and E, since, although E has tasted the bead, it is amnesic and pecks it later.
There were candles and missals, collections plates, beads, lunules, censers, thuribles, aspergillums, and ciboria.
I think, too, there were some innocent bags full of beads and a few packages of Birmingham-made assegai blades.
She wore a new lace blouse, an expensive wrapper, coral beads round her neck, and copper bangles round her wrists.
Hanging on hooks were bracelets and bangles and hundreds of beaded necklaces, mostly of bright red beads mixed with gold coins.
Hugh could see her, see her with her bangles and her beads standing at the pithead, her little parcel of clothes tucked under her arm.
Hideo-san and Dugal Beader did their best for us, and managed to hold out for longer than anyone thought they could.
He and Hideo-san and Dugal Beader did their best for us, and managed to hold out for longer than anyone thought they could.
Paulie wanted to cover the glass beader with a blanket like a shroud, maybe get flowers to show respect.
Un-adorned metal boxes, beaders use minute particles of glass oxide impact beads and around eighty pounds of air pressure to blast rust and peeling paint off car parts.
There was a fault beading of sweat on his forehead though he tried to smile.
Ekeser answered calmly enough though there was sweat beading his upper lip.
I gave the monkey wide berth, nearly knocked into a huge betasselled sombrero someone had perched on a marble bust of the third Duke, avoided the peculiar green drink thrust in my direction by a woman dressed predominantly in beads and fringe, and escaped.