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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bare Poles (Under) implies that the weather is rough and the wind so high that the ship displays no sails on the masts. Figuratively applied to a man reduced to the last extremity. Figuratively, a disingenuous person sails under bare poles. "We were scudding before a heavy gale, under bare poles." - Cupt. Marryat. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream, scud under bare poles. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BARE POLES |
| English words defined with "BARE POLES": Spoom. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BARE POLES": Poles. (references) |
Expressions using "BARE POLES": scud under bare poles ♦ under bare poles. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "BARE POLES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | със свити платна (under bare poles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bevont vitorlákkal halad (to run under bare poles, to scud under bare poles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arebay olespay cu toate pânzele strânse (under bare poles). (various references) без парусов (under bare poles). (various references) yelkenleri açmadan (under bare poles), yelkenler inik olarak (under bare poles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: earlobes, operable, parolees. | |
-2 letters: aerobes, areoles, beleaps, earlobe, elopers, leapers, leprose, parolee, paroles, pleaser, presale, relapse, repeals, reposal, ropable, saprobe. | |
-3 letters: abeles, aerobe, areole, asleep, aslope, balers, beleap, blares, blears, bleeps, borals, boreal, elapse, eloper, elopes, labors, lapser, larees, leaper, leaser, lepers, lopers, operas, pareos, parles, parole, parols, pearls, please, plebes, polars, polers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-l-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: personable, porbeagles. | |
+2 letters: processable. | |
+3 letters: boilerplates, prosecutable, provableness, superposable. | |
+4 letters: cerebrospinal, doublespeaker, imponderables, nonperishable, operabilities. | |
+5 letters: comparableness, deplorableness, doublespeakers, impressionable, nonperishables, pardonableness, personableness, phlebographies, profitableness, provablenesses, superimposable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 52 45      50 4F 4C 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01010010 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001111 01001100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A R E   P O L E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0052 0045      0050 004F 004C 0045 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3635523925049463953 |
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