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Answer for the clue "Dutch port ", 8 letters:
flushing

Word definitions for flushing in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act by which something is flushed. 2 (context UK English) A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy. 3 A surface formed of floating threads. vb. (present participle of flush English)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flushing (or Flush ) is a military tactic whereby grenades , smoke , gunfire , riot control agent , chemical weapons , or various other methods can be used to flush opponents out from cover . Flushing can cause opponents to leave their cover, possibly making ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 900 Housing Units (2000): 434 Land area (2000): 0.603604 sq. miles (1.563328 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.603604 sq. miles (1.563328 sq. km) FIPS code: 27552 Located within: Ohio ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
New York village established 1645 by English Puritans (now a neighborhood in Queens), an English corruption of Dutch Vlissingen , name of Dutch town where the Puritans had taken refuge, literally "flowing" (so called for its location on an estuary of the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flashing \Flash"ing\, n. (Engineering) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing . (Arch.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover ...

Usage examples of flushing.

Flushing with embarrassment, she turned to see Agro and his very slender wife.

Commander Duvall must either have upset Beaumont on passage from Harwich or was now considered too valuable to use for flushing out a Spanish spy-ship, or whatever she was.

Maria hung her head over the sanitary blue water water that got bluer with every flush-emptying her sickened insides out, emptying and flushing in a steady rhythm.

They began calling all the hospitals and emergency clinics in Chinatown in Manhattan and the one in Flushing, Queens, to see if any female Chinese patients had been admitted with Q fever and a badly broken, infected arm.

There was a loud flushing noise, a cubicle door opened and the man with a clarety complexion and heavy jowls from the next table emerged with a bemused expression.

Flushing, Rand launched into the spiel he had perfected at inns before this.

He told me that Dusty Muleman denied flushing polluted water from his gambling boat, which was no big surprise.

The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are serest, But our flower was in flushing When blighting was nearest.

Two hundred of the beggars, under the command of Treslong, accordingly started the next day for Flushing.

Her the close bewildering greenery Darkens with its duskiest green, - Him each little leaflet welcomes, Flushing with an orient sheen.

Just like gunshots and drugs and dead bodies on the street below, just like sirens and screams and dogs howling in the night, just like televisions blasting and cats screeching and doors slamming and toilets flushing.

Philomena Toussaint began speaking in tongues and Mr Pike, carried away by the emotional atmosphere, confided that his dream for Castle Prison was to see flushing lavatories installed in every cell.

Then it was a crash to the carpet and a topsy-turvy shot of Otis Jackson scooping junk bindles off the floor, stumbling to the bathroom, a toilet flushing.

Jake Barton wriggled out of the engine hatch of Miss Wobbly and grinned at Vicky Camberwell who sat on the sponson above him swinging her long legs idly, with the wind in her hair and the tan she had picked up in the last few days gilding her arms and flushing at her cheeks.

His eyes crossed Annas, and he took a long look before flushing and looking away.