conistra

English

Etymology

Noun

conistra

(historical) A part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Ancient Greeks: either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself.
(historical) A part of the orchestra of the Ancient Greek theatre.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “conistra”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

C-rations, Cortinas, Crisanto, Nicastro, Nicotras, anticors, cantoris, carotins, cast iron, cast-iron, castiron, castorin, cortinas, nicators, tricosan-

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