hint
noun
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue.
hinter
-
a word derived from
hint.
Example Sentences
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He has said dozens of times to visitors, however: "Max von Baden ist hinter mir gegangen!"
From Time Magazine Archive
A household hinter advises that “if the thin white curtains blow into the gas and catch fire sew small lead weights into the seams.”
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
Typical New-Yorker is the pseudo, half enviously bestowed upon his kind by hinter America.
From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Fannie Hurst
The remainder of his section, now 60 strong, engaged in training on the hinter slope.
From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Herbert Brayley Collett
Even the old city of Montreal, preserve of the C.P.R., lent its mountain to Mackenzie for a tunnel and a "Model City" on the hinter side.
From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle
