Answer to "Nautical hazard" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REEF , but the solution may also be SHOAL which is one of the most recent solution (2013 in New York Times).

Nautical hazard crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
REEF	50 %	4
SEAICE	21 %	6
SHOAL	21 %	5
BERG	7 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Nautical hazard

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• shoal
• reef
• sandbar
• bank
• bought
• channel
• riverbank
• chop
• pass
• riverine
• inlet
• beach

Crossword Answer definitions

REEF noun

1. A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
2. A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
3. A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind.
4. A reef knot.

REEF verb

1. To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
2. To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding.
3. (of paddles) To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.

REEF noun

1. The itch; any eruptive skin disorder.
2. Dandruff.

REEF adjective

1. Scabby; scurvy.

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 REEF

• Great Barrier __
• Coral structure
• Ship's bane
• Coral ridge
• Great Barrier ____
• Sailors' hazard
• Coral formation
• Mariner's danger
• Marine hazard
• Shipping hazard

More clues leading to the result SEAICE

• Nautical hazard
• Gulf of Bothnia winter phenomenon
• North Atlantic navigation worry
• Form of brine
• Hazard of the Northwest Passage.
• Endangered Arctic presence
• It's gradually shrinking in the Arctic
• What grows in the winter
• Polar bear habitat
• Masses of floating brine

More clues leading to the result SHOAL

• Shallow area
• Mississippi River hazard
• Sandbank
• Bar at a resort?
• Sandbar
• Reef
• Sandbank formation
• Sand bar
• Sailing hazard
• Bar where sailors may stop

More clues leading to the result BERG

• Glacier breakaway
• Ice follower
• Ice formation
• Writer Stuart __ Flexner
• "Wozzeck" composer
• Composer Alban
• Ice ender
• It may go with the floe
• North sea floater
• Gertrude of "The Goldbergs"