Crossword clues for thames
thames
- River to North Sea
- British river
- London river
- Shipping forecast area
- River seen from Windsor Castle
- Henley Royal Regatta river
- What the Tower of London overlooks
- Tower Bridge river
- The Tower Bridge spans it
- It's held in London banks
- Heritage river in Ontario
- View from the London Eye
- Tower of London neighbor
- Tower Bridge spans it
- Tower Bridge crosses it
- Site of London's annual rowing race
- River under Tower Bridge
- River spanned by Westminster Bridge
- River setting for "The Wind in the Willows"
- River in Conn
- River crossed by Westminster Bridge
- River by Windsor Castle
- River by Big Ben
- Reading's river
- Punting site
- New London's river
- London divider
- London Bridge's crossing
- It's held by London banks
- It flows past Big Ben
- Henley venue
- Henley Royal Regatta site
- English setting for a series of Impressionist paintings by Monet
- "Sweet" locale in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
- River by Westminster Palace
- Henley Regatta site
- View from Windsor Castle
- River under London Bridge, once
- "Sweet ___, run softly, till I end my song": Spenser
- River past Westminster Palace
- River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
- View from Big Ben
- The longest river in England
- Flows eastward through London to the North Sea
- Henley's waterway
- View at the Tate Gallery
- "Sweet ___! run softly . . . ": Spenser
- North Sea feeder
- Parliamentary prospect
- Oxford's river
- English flower
- London's river
- Site of the Henley Regatta
- Name of four rivers
- River of England
- Eton's river
- Tower Bridge's crossing
- River to the North Sea
- A North Sea feeder
- What has London banks acting badly during trial, mostly
- Feature of London breaks: bagging husband!
- London’s river
- River quietens after introduction of hydrant
- River at Henley
- Bit of hogweed found in uninspiring section of river
- The Isis at Oxford
- English river
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
river through London, Old English Temese, from Latin Tamesis (51 B.C.E.), from British Tamesa, an ancient Celtic river name perhaps meaning "the dark one." The -h- is unetymological (see th).
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
Thames usually refers to the River Thames in England.
Thames may also refer to:
Thames ward in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham the returns three elected representatives every four years. At the 2006 election Fred Barns, Barry Poulton, and Joan Rawlinson, all of the Labour Party (UK) were reelected. The ward includes the large Barking Riverside redevelopment area.
Thames is a former New Zealand electorate, in the Thames-Coromandel District. It existed from 1871 to 1946.
Thames is a British television production company that was established on 1 January 2012. The name Thames was revived from Thames Television after being inactive for nearly nine years.
Thames is an electoral ward of the Borough of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It is one of four wards in Caversham which describes the area in the borough on the north side of the River Thames and is immediately north of Reading town centre. It is bordered by Caversham ward and two wards in the direction of neighbouring villages, named after them, but not including them: Peppard and Mapledurham, (straddling Peppard and Mapledurham roads). Across the river is Abbey ward.
As with all wards, apart from smaller Mapledurham, it elects three councillors to Reading Borough Council. Elections since 2004 are held by thirds, with elections in three years out of four.
Usage examples of "thames".
The Thames had no bridges, and hundreds of boats plied between London side and Southwark, where were most of the theatres, the bull-baitings, the bear-fighting, the public gardens, the residences of the hussies, and other amusements that Bankside, the resort of all classes bent on pleasure, furnished high or low.
Bligh striking out the debts from her ledger-book, her strong-box becoming a catch-basin for the new money, overflowing and spilling out gleaming rivulets down the street to the bankside coffee-merchants, and thence down the Thames into the wide.
Between the building that housed it and the sluggish grey waters of the Thames ran a four-lane road that passed alongside the gilt statues of Billingsgate on its way to the Tower of London.
We landed at the Old Swan, and walked to Billingsgate, where we took oars, and moved smoothly along the silver Thames.
Barnaby Blackstrap, Brothers, and Company, of Upper Thames Street, have always been famous for selling wines of the choicest vintage.
And the white mare wheeled them round away from the river and rose into the air, skimming the foaming water, crossing the Thames to the side that is the end of Buckinghamshire, the beginning of Berkshire.
The creek is running high all the Thames tributaries are in spate today and floodwater backs up under the bridge carrying the new A13 road and spills over into Dagenham sewage works.
She whispered a great deal to Miss Dunstable about new blood, and talked of going down to Westminster Bridge to see whether the Thames were really on fire.
Thames, but even have made a figure in the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries, during which the Athenian matrons rallied one another from different waggons, with that freedom of altercation so happily preserved in this our age and country.
Thee in thy favourite fields, where the limpid, gently-rolling Thames washes thy Etonian banks, in early youth I have worshipped.
The dolphin-entwined lamps of the Embankment, when a hesperidian sun ignites the Thames and the lights flick on like strings of iridescent pearls.
And what would later be considered tropical animals could be found in North America, Europe, and Asia: In England, the Thames was broad and swampy, and hippos and elephants basked on its floodplain.
Thames, I talked to him of a little volume, which, altogether unknown to him, was advertised to be published in a few days, under the title of Johnsoniana, or Bon-Mots of Dr.
Hammersmith and partly at Kelmscott, the old manor house, lying on the banks of the Upper Thames, which he had tenanted since 1878.
Graydon lifted Sir Seaborne Margate off the ground and, with all of the other picnic-goers avidly watching, tossed him into the Thames.