Shot-putter? Crossword Clue

While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Shot-putter? crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on October 25 2025 New York Times Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Shot-putter? has a total of 5 letters.

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99%NURSEShot-putter?New York Times

Definition

One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
Either one of the nurse sharks.
To nourish; to cherish; to foster
To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.
To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.

Recent Usage in Crossword Puzzles:

  • New York Times: Oct 25, 2025
  • LA Times: Sep 22, 2023

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