The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ANTENNA
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More clues leading to the result ANTENNA
- Worker returning woman's aerial
- Feeler put out by worker upset girl
- Aerial made by worker a girl rejected
- Soldier must take queen back, one feels
- One feels queen is repelled by insect
- Soldier meets retiring girl, dish perhaps
- One feels insect repelled girl
- Worker erected girl’s aerial
- Receiver finding workernot available
- Old Indian copper seizing figure’s sensitive appendage
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What does ANTENNA mean?
ANTENNA noun- A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
- An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
- The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
- A fragment of an oligosaccharide
- The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.