Crossword clues for ruler
ruler
- It's used for good measure
- It has a foot
- Crown wearer
- Pencil-box item
- Straight stick of a sort
- Shah, e.g
- Pencil-box accessory
- King or emperor
- It's a foot long
- Foot of wood
- Desk-drawer item
- Czar or kaiser
- Back-to-school shopping purchase
- Wood tool for some drawers
- Use it to go straight
- Use it for good measure
- Twelve-inch tool
- The Queen of Hearts, vis-à-vis Wonderland
- Strip used in drawing straight lines
- Stick with many marks
- Stick in a desk
- Stick for a drawer
- Something marked off in school
- Smaller version of a yardstick
- Side of many a protractor
- Shah or czar
- Schoolbag measuring stick
- School-box item
- School desk item
- Regent, for one
- Queen or tsarina
- Queen or emperor
- Planet associated with a zodiac sign
- Person in charge?
- Person in charge of country
- Pencil box item
- One issuing edicts
- Old school weapon
- Odysseus, to Ithaca
- Microsoft Word display option
- Line-drawing aid
- Leader — line-drawing aid
- King, queen, or emperor
- King or tsar
- Item in a school desk
- It's ticked off
- It's often a foot long
- It's often 12 inches long
- It measures up
- It helps to draw straight lines
- It helps keep things straight
- It helps draw the line
- It can set things straight
- It can create long lines
- Help in drawing the line
- Footlong product
- Foot-long thing
- Foot-long stick, often
- Foot-long school tool
- Fiat source
- Empress, e.g
- Empress or queen
- Emperor, for instance
- Emperor, for example
- Elizabeth II, e.g
- Despot, for instance
- Common measurer
- Common bookbag item
- Band dictator
- Any king
- Alignment aid in Microsoft Word
- Alanis lyric "Slap me with a splintered ___"
- Overlord
- Schoolbag item
- King or queen, e.g
- Desk item
- Mars, to Aries, in astrology
- 12-inch stick
- School tool
- Makeshift punishment device
- It's for good measure
- What "Henry" means, literally
- Makeshift punishment tool
- Monarch, for one
- Czar or king
- King or czar
- 12" stick
- Sovereign one
- Pencil box top, often
- Drawing help
- It's made to measure
- Kaiser or czar
- Aid in drawing straight lines
- Measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
- Viceroy, e.g.
- Archon, e.g.
- Measuring device
- Khedive
- Elizabeth II, e.g.
- Autocrat
- Measurement tool
- Stick in a school desk
- Straightedge
- Yardstick, e.g
- Dey or czar
- Archon, e.g
- Man with a scepter
- T square
- Measuring instrument
- Dey or bey
- Governor that helps to lay down a measure
- Governor in something made to measure
- Monarch drawing aid
- Might one regret snorting line with Her Maj?
- Measuring strip
- Measure big cheese
- Queen possibly to regret having bottom grabbed by both hands
- King, e.g
- Straight edge; monarch
- Sovereign that'll keep things in line?
- Source of line, line penned in regret, right?
- Something made to measure for emperor
- Liberal dons feel sorry for king … and queen?
- Leader - line-drawing aid
- Law 18? It might help to draw the line in 26, we hear
- Regret drinking port with royal head of state
- Person in authority that must be straight!
- Head of state is stock market malefactor? No way!
- Head of state
- Does he regret hosting Liberal leader?
- Top person that has to be absolutely straight
- Measuring stick
- One in charge
- Nicholas, for one
- Queen, e.g
- Back-to-school purchase
- Measuring tool
- Back-to-school item
- Desk drawer item
- Throne occupant
- Stick in school
- Pencil box top, sometimes
- Measuring aid
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruler \Rul"er\ (r[udd]l"[~e]r), n.
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One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor.
And he made him ruler over all the land.
--Gen. xli. 43.A prince and ruler of the land.
--Shak. -
A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a) .
Parallel ruler. See under Parallel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a rule; a straightedge with markings; a measure. 2 A person who rules or governs; a person who exercises dominion or controlling power over others.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A ruler, sometimes called a rule or line gauge, is an instrument used in geometry, technical drawing, printing, engineering and building to measure distances or to rule straight lines. The ruler is a straightedge which may also contain calibrated lines to measure distances.
Ruler (1777 – 4 February 1806) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He won three of his five starts, including the two-mile St. Leger Stakes in 1780. He was bred and owned by William Bethell.
Usage examples of "ruler".
The Empress might have enough support among the nobles to keep a precarious hold on her throne, but she had made no overtures to the common folk, and they were solidly opposed to the idea of an Aberrant ruler.
It was the difference between the manners of Tewksbury and Tuscumbia, between being brought up amid the cruelties of the almshouse and the affectionate warmth of an upper-middle-class Southern home, between an Irish cultural heritage of black pessimism and hot hatred of patronizing rulers and the genial, self-confident outlook of a class that despite the Civil War was still master.
The Deck Officer, now crouched low on the deck, his forward leg bent, his aft leg ruler straight, quickly waved his wand forward in a big arc, the wand finally touching the deck, then coming up to point straight ahead down the deck into the wind.
Petersburg as to the meaning of that invasion, and it received the answer that Russia felt compelled to come to the rescue of the Ameer at his request, for the Afghan ruler was anxious for his independence, in view of the measures which were taken by England.
However, as Ament suggested, perhaps a truly superior ruler would rise above such a temptation, no matter how justifiable, and pursue other options before resorting to something as vast and terrible as Morning Star.
The first twelve articles are devoted to the pope, the annates, the appointment of foreigners to German benefices, the appeal of cases to Rome, the asserted authority of the papacy over bishops, the emperor, and other rulers.
Zarth Arn, the man whose body I now inhabit, is son of the greatest ruler in the galaxy?
Although the King of Prussia had been the first of all the coalition to assail republican France, yet, in the spring of this year, he concluded a separate treaty with its democratic rulers.
However, as the Ottoman rulers became more legitimate in the eyes of their subjects, through piety, good deeds, and good government, their swords eventually moved into the background and were replaced by a type of rule by negotiation, which, generally speaking, gave the Ottoman authoritarian tradition in the Middle East a softer edge.
The more popular support the Ottoman rulers garnered through the ages, the more they sought to sustain their authoritarianism without resort to force, but instead by building bridges to key sectors of the societies they ruled, by allowing others to share in the spoils and by never totally vanquishing their opponents, but instead always leaving them a way out so that they might one day be turned into friends.
Blood Guard will be interested to know that the insignificant roundhead whom he sees before him is only secretary to this distinguished traveller, the clear-thinking Ave Mar, son of the Ruler of Danjab.
I would not be the ruler, look ye, of such a community, for the hope of becoming Avoyer of Berne itself.
The Mightiest of All Men, the Excellent Ruler of the universe, who had reduced all hostility to nothing, who had won lustrous glory, ascended the golden baldachin resting on the backs of two elephants also covered in golden cloth.
More rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered here today, to try the two apostles, than had ever attended the sessions on John the Baptist or Jesus.
Therefore without any injustice rulers can have the children of Jews baptized, as well as those of other slaves who are unbelievers.