The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REEL which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2019.
It holds the line crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REEL | 80 % | 4 |
| ROD | 13 % | 3 |
| FISHINGROD | 3 % | 10 |
| SPOOL | 3 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: It holds the line
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Crossword Answer definitions
REEL noun- A shaky or unsteady gait.
- A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
- A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, —-- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
- A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
- A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
- To wind on a reel.
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
- (with back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
- To make or cause to reel.
- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
- To be in shock.
- To roll.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result REEL
- Feel dizzy
- Irish dance
- React to a haymaker
- Spin
- Fail a sobriety test, perhaps
- Rod's companion
- Spin about
- Angler's gear
- Hose holder
- Rod attachment
More clues leading to the result ROD
- Mr. Serling
- "Spare the __ ..."
- Cone's counterpart
- Five-and-a-half yards
- "The Twilight Zone" creator Serling
- Hood armament
- Serling of "The Pawnbroker"
- Staff
- Fishing pole
- Retina cell
More clues leading to the result FISHINGROD
- Gear on a pier
- Angling Steiger?
- Angler Stewart?
- Angler's item
- *Angler's equipment
- Angler's gear
- Casting need
- It holds the line
- Sports shop purchase.
- Means of dropping a line