Crossword clues for saur
saur
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saur \Saur\, n. [Contracted from Gael. salachar filth, nastiness, fr. salach nasty, fr. sal filth, refuse.] Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse. [Prov. Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK dialect English) soil; dirt 2 (context UK dialect English) dirty water 3 (context UK dialect English) urine from a cowhouse
Wikipedia
Saur may refer to:
- Dog king - a Scandinavian tradition
- Saur 1 - an APC developed by ROMARM
- Karl Saur (1902–1966), German State Secretary
- K. G. Saur Verlag, German publisher
- Saur (restaurant), Michelin starred restaurant in The Hague, Netherlands
- Saur Mountains, in China and Kazakhstan
- Saur, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
- "-saur", a suffix used in taxonomy to describe reptiles, particularly dinosaurs.
Saur was a restaurant located in The Hague in the Netherlands. It was a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star in the periods 1958-1959 and 1967-1989. The restaurant finally closed down in November 2013.
In the period 1982-1984, head chef was Ad van Wel.
Restaurant Saur was convicted of breaching the price regulations in 1942. During the wintertime it had charged ƒ 2,50 for a plate of pea soup, while it was only allowed to charge ƒ 1,20. Although it was moved to a higher price class before the conviction, it still had to pay a fine of ƒ 1000 (thousand guilders). In 1942, restaurant Saur advertised with peewit eggs
In the last days of his life, 2 May 2002, politician Pim Fortuyn was dining with friends in Restaurant Saur. A large crowd of protesters gathered in front of the restaurant. A security firm offered to protect him, but Fortuyn declined. Four days later, on the 6th of May, he was murdered.
Usage examples of "saur".
In among the suits and Sunday best, kids cavort in costumes of dinosaurs, megatheres, apemen, saurs, and krakens.
Quick zoom in to scenes of conflict -- lightspeed ships exchanging laser fire, a gutted asteroid habitat swarming with monkey-spiders, a ruined monkey-spider city, a saur manufacturing plant forest in flames.
Volkov was surprised at the reaction until he remembered that the saur method of hunting, megayears established and ingrained, was to stampede herds of herbivorous dinosaurs off cliffs.
The saur looks up, the nictitating membrane flickering across his huge, black, almond-shaped eyes.
The octopods and their allies fled, while the saurs and krakens who remained behind labored to repair the damage done.
The gray-suited saurs looked more spruce than the humans, most of whom were in sea-boots and oilskins, dripping wet.
No high-energy weapons, unfortunately -- these are jealously monopolized by the saurs and stashed in the skiffs or on ships.
The ship was thousands of kilometers away, over the ocean where the kraken refreshed themselves and did their own deals, but the skiffs were parked along the lakeside quays and warehouses with the cargo for hominid and saur customers.
These phenomena included, I may add, our friends the saurs, and their gravity skiffs, and for all I know to the contrary, the flaming starships.
Now some of the saurs have seen fit to share it with the merchants, or at least with this clan, who I'm sure are clannish enough to keep it to themselves.
There's a great chain of being, almost, from the gods down through the krakens and the saurs to the humans and the affined fellow Adamic hominidae.
The powers argue among themselves, but they agree on this: The Adamic races, the saurs, the kraken, and any other intelligent species out there, are all lower forms of life.
Lucy secured her Sig Saur 9mm pistol inside a butt pack, buckling the strap snugly around her waist.
The boatman throttled back the petrol engine, hove to and made fast, and the two saurs and four humans climbed off the boat.
The manufacturing and farming classes sensu stricto tend to specialize in luxury production for the saur market.