The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BISHOP
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More clues leading to the result BISHOP
- Cleric is hopeless at first in dance
- Piece again introducing dance
- One’s bound to follow Bible’s lead?
- Holy man to dance around his building
- Repeat dance for man on board
- One’s bound to support black man going on board
- Man‘s encore: to go on one leg
- Twice jump a little way for a man on board
- Man on board second-rate ship uneasy with old interior
- Piece of the cloth?
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What does BISHOP mean?
BISHOP noun- An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
- The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
- Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
- A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
- The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
- A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
- A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
- A bustle.
- A children's smock or pinafore.
- To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
- To make a bishop.
- To provide with bishops.
- To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- (by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
- To murder by drowning.