The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ARMATURE
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More clues leading to the result ARMATURE
- Artist comes up with sensible framework
- Part of motor fully formed fitted to lead-free vehicle
- Stripped cars with fully developed motor component
- Revolutionary artist developed modelling framework
- Half of soldiers responsible for motor part
- A paper’s ending with fully-developed framework
- One’s wound from weapon character first fired
- A river, old, winding
- Artist coming up with sensible framework
- Defenses are almost fully developed
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The straight part
We know that "motor part" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case motor part = armature.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does ARMATURE mean?
ARMATURE noun- The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire around a metal core.
- The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
- A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet
- A supporting framework in a sculpture.
- A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
- A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
- Armor, or a suit of armor.
- Any apparatus for defence.
- The frame of a pair of glasses.
- To provide with an armature (any sense).