HOMOGRAPHS CXVI

What single word satisfies both of the meanings?

1. Sailing vessel

    Large glass for serving beer  

 

2. Soak in a liquid

    Sharp, near vertical slope 

 

3. Hold back, avoid doing something

    Chorus, regularly recurring comment

 

4. A pure substance in chemistry

    Most suitable, comfortable environment 

 

5. Coat with flour

    Dig out the bottom of a waterway

 

6. Vegetable/fruit cooked into pies

    A heated argument, brawl (especially in baseball) 

 

Answers:

 

1. SCHOONER*

2. STEEP

3. REFRAIN

4. ELEMENT

5. DREDGE

6. RHUBARB  

 

*A prairie schooner was a canvas-covered farm wagon used by 19th-century American pioneers in the Westward movement. The white canvas would billow in the wind - looking like the sails of an ocean-going schooner.