Crossword clues for loaves
loaves
- Miraculous objects in the Bible
- Food in a biblical story
- Bread buys
- Baker's wares
- Wonder output
- Slicer inserts
- Pumpernickel units
- Pumpernickel purchases
- Pre-cube sugar shapes
- Portions of bread
- Part of a biblical miracle
- Objects in one of Jesus' miracles
- Fishes' partner
- Fishes' counterparts
- Edibles in a Biblical miracle
- Bread aisle array
- Biblical miracle units
- Biblical miracle component
- Basis of a biblical miracle
- Elements of a biblical miracle
- Biblical objects of multiplication
- Early-morning risers?
- Bread supply
- Sugar and bread
- Bakers' products
- Conical masses of sugar
- Pieces of bread
- Bakery buys
- Bakery array
- Bakery output
- Bakery offerings
- Bakery products
- Bread units
- Bakery units
- Lots of bread
- Molded meat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loaf \Loaf\, n.; pl. Loaves. [OE. lof, laf, AS. hl[=a]f; akin
to G. laib, OHG. hleip, Icel. hleifr, Goth. hlaifs, Russ.
khlieb', Lith. kl["e]pas. Cf. Lady, Lammas, Lord.]
Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly
shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
--Bacon.
Loaf sugar, refined sugar that has been formed into a conical loaf in a mold.
Loaves \Loaves\, n.; pl. of Loaf.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (loaf English) Etymology 2
n. (plural of loave English)
WordNet
n. a shaped mass of baked bread [syn: loaf of bread]
[also: loaves (pl)]
v. be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about]
be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around]
[also: loaves (pl)]
See loaf
Usage examples of "loaves".
Desdra had an armful of bread loaves and a huge wooden bowl full of fruit and cheeses, including the one forwarded by Lady Gana.
He called his son and one of his idle friends to help with the boat and, after providing ourselves with a few loaves of bread, a little wine, and some boiled eggs and hard lumps of goat cheese, we cast off.
Flats and flats of broiled rock squat and loaves of bread were boarded as well as convenient twenty-five-pound sacks of wheat and a dozen of flour, enough for her to make bread on the journeys and at Barevi.
Thanks to him, he didn't feel that what he'd done to the loaves was evil.
Bwlch said, and then we all bustled down to the inn, where rough trestle tables had been set up with a fine meal upon them, roast suckling pig and three capons, as well as mounds of vegetables and loaves of bread.
She grinned to see the loaves and fishes that were being supplied to the multitude.
Bread racks showed the day's produce which was not limited to large, economy loaves, but featured small ones as well.
Grinning at the bakers, she held her hand over the loaves just out of the oven.
Joe and Sarah shared their loaves and many in Mitford's group had thought to bring food which they distributed.
She immediately exclaimed with real pleasure at the three long loaves of bread that stuck out around the stew pot.
It could rise overnight, have another quick rise as rolls, which would be easier to distribute than loaves, and be ready for their journey.
Burnt crusts had been scraped and cut, in some places, from the loaves before serving.
That finished, he brought out a bundle and began unwrapping it - loaves of bread, dried fish and pork, and other things to make a meal.
In exchange for Roupen's ring, we got two bags of ground meal, a haunch of salt pork, five loaves of bread, half a wheel of hard cheese, a few strips of dried beef, and various other provisions such as eggs, nuts, dried peas, and salt fish.
Padraig undertook to procure the bare necessities: a few loaves of bread, a little dried meat, and three skins of water - enough to see us to Saint Symeon where we hoped to get a boat.