Crossword clues for thwarter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thwarter \Thwart"er\, n. (Far.) A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.
Wiktionary
n. A person or thing that thwarts.
WordNet
n. someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take [syn: obstructionist, obstructor, obstructer, resister]
Usage examples of "thwarter".
Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, thwarter of the Black Mass, nemesis of the Redeemers, he who has returned from the dead and has been worshipped by some as a mes-siah.
Supersleuth, mysterious thwarter of crime, The Shadow was traveling with Ralph Weston and Marinez Corlaza on their way to investigate the affairs of Sigby Rund.
There was a cook shop next to the platform and he ate his breakfast amid a bustle of young Thwarters going to work in the village food fields in a valley lower down.
He paid for his meal with a handful of local coins, then herded his sample cases out of the shop, ignoring the laughter that followed him as the Thwarters noted for the first time the hippity-hoppity progress of the cases on their dozens of short skinny legs and stubby feet.
By noon he'd finished two-thirds of the circuit, had tagged a dozen Thwarters and was near perishing of hunger.