The 9-Letter Word Puzzle - Challenge #3

wow, you both got it at the same time!

YAY!!! :-D

BRAVA!

Praise be to Jes and Mac. I would never have gotten this one. Trug isn't in my Webster's Dictionary and it's only fifty years old.

This is from www.dictionary.com:

trug n. Chiefly British
A shallow, usually oval gardening basket made with wide strips of wood.

[Middle English, a shallow wooden tray, measure of corn, perhaps from Old Norse trog, trough. See deru- in Indo-European Roots.]

Source. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Thanks for the link, Mac. WOW. Thesaurus and crossword puzzle dictionary, too. I just put it in my Favorites.

I actually looked up insects of england.... but not baskets.

Congratulations Team - that was a well co-ordinated assault on the clues given.

The answer was indeed:

GRUNTLING

Clues:
INSECT = NIT
BODY PART = GUT
FISH = LING
BASKET = TRUG

Notes:
The seven different letters were G, I, L, N, R, T, and U
The two vowels were I and U
The correct word (and the four clue words) are found in Webster's Dictionary

I trust that you all learned some new, and useful words.

OK, Biblio, where's #4?

OK my friends, now go to Challenge #4