Dictionary Entry
yew
yew is a 3-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Yaw. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
See Yaw.
- 2noun
An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
- 3noun
The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
- 4noun
A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
- 5adjective
Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.
- 6noun
any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves
- 7noun
wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows
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