The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word NARROWS
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More clues leading to the result NARROWS
- Pointers after end of construction contracts
- Sound nervous at first and all of a quiver?
- Straits at pole with direction indicators
- Gets smaller new missiles
- Missiles located below northern straits
- New series on artist going round southern waterways
- Confines northern missiles
- Squeezed between poles, shaft becomes smaller
- On reflection, rushed argument’s sound?
- Tapers point on pointed missiles
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What does NARROWS mean?
NARROWS verb- To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- To get narrower.
- (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- A narrow part of a navigable waterway.