Clues for the word "FOLD"
We've had 78 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 132 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 16, 2025.
Definition of fold
- v. t. - To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
- v. t. - To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
- v. t. - To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
- v. t. - To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
- v. i. - To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
- v. - A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
- v. - Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
- v. - That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
- n. - An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
- n. - A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
- n. - A boundary; a limit.
- v. t. - To confine in a fold, as sheep.
- v. i. - To confine sheep in a fold.
Referring Clues
- Drop out, in poker
- Quit, in poker
- Do origami
- Do a post-laundry job
- Go belly up
- Go out of business
- Close up
- Give up a poker hand
- Toss in one's hand
- Drop one's hand
- Go bankrupt
- Toss in a hand
- Cease business
- Muck one's hand
- Choose not to call
- Dog-ear
- Make a crease in
- Congregation
- Make pleats
- Make a pleat
- Practice origami
- Bow out of a poker hand
- Double over
- Crease
- Scottish ______
- Poker game withdrawal
- Go out
- Do a laundry chore
- Pleat
- Drop out of a hand
- Fail in business
- Finish the laundry
- Soufflé recipe word
- Dog-ear, e.g.
- Call it quits
- Flock of sheep
- Cease playing
- Throw in cards
- Turn down a raise?
- Help with the laundry
- Social group
- Paper crease
- Make fit in an envelope
- Scottish _______
- Throw in one's hand
- Turn one's hand over
- Put a crease in
- Sheep pen
- Pen for sheep
- Paper snowflake maker's action
- Collapse
- Decide not to call
- Laundry chore
- Make some origami
- Get out of hand?
- Do a laundry day task
- Do origami, e.g.
- Make laundry neat
- Neaten finished laundry
- Put down one's hand, say
- Tuck - pen
- Church congregation to go bust
- Sheep group
- Double over?
- Give up on a poker hand
- The place for fatheaded old bleaters?
- Make double (in sheep farming?)
- Decide not to call, in poker
- Toss in your cards
- Wherein, sheepishly, to give up playing cards?
- Poker play
- Do this to laundry out of the dryer
- Give in
- Give up, in poker
- Verb in origami instructions
- Basic origami step
- Step in a pastry recipe
- Bow out of a round of poker
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 25, 2025
- New York Times - September 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 10, 2025
- USA Today - January 04, 2025
- Daily American - December 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 11, 2024
- New York Times - April 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 04, 2023
- USA Today - July 27, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 03, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 08, 2023
- USA Today - February 14, 2023
- New York Times - January 02, 2023
- Daily American - December 19, 2022
- USA Today - December 14, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 06, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 21, 2022
- Mirror Classic - November 01, 2017
- Mirror Quick - September 29, 2017
- Family Time - September 18, 2017
- Mirror Quick - July 15, 2017
- LA Times - June 24, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 09, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 29, 2017
- And in 102 more crossword puzzles...