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Definition: BAR SHOT |
BAR SHOT1. A double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BAR SHOT |
| English words defined with "BAR SHOT": Stang ball. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: abhors, aborts, bathos, boarts, borsht, broths, tabors, throbs, torahs. | |
-2 letters: abhor, abort, bahts, baths, boars, boart, boast, boats, boras, borts, botas, brash, brats, broth, harts, hoars, horas, horst, hosta, oaths, ratos, roast, rotas, sabot, shoat, short, tabor, tahrs, taros, throb, torah, toras, trash. | |
-3 letters: abos, arbs, arts, baht, bars, bash, bast, bath, bats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-h-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: tarboosh. | |
+2 letters: bathrobes, bathrooms, hardboots. | |
+3 letters: betrothals, broadsheet, hereabouts, shortbread, tarbooshes, thornbacks, throwbacks, turboshaft. | |
+4 letters: beachfronts, behaviorist, bichromates, blackthorns, brachiators, broadcloths, broadsheets, heartthrobs, hibernators, houseboater, matchboards, patchboards, rubythroats, shortbreads, switchboard, thereabouts, trophoblast, turboshafts, whereabouts, whiteboards. | |
+5 letters: behaviorists, botherations, brachiations, chatterboxes, erythorbates, erythroblast, harbormaster, hibernations, houseboaters, motherboards, scratchboard, switchboards, thermostable, thoroughbass, thromboxanes, torchbearers, trophoblasts, vibraphonist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 52 53 48 4F 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01010010 00100000 01010011 01001000 01001111 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A R   S H O T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0052 0053 0048 004F 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363552253424954 |
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