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BLACKSTRAP

Definitions: BLACKSTRAP

BLACKSTRAP

Noun

1. Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.

2. A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: BLACKSTRAP

Specialty definitions using "BLACKSTRAP": Black Strap. (references)

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Photo Album: BLACKSTRAP

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Rich sources of copper: oysters, beef or lamb liver, Brazil nuts, blackstrap molasses, cocoa, and black pepper. Good sources: lobster, nuts and sunflower seeds, green olives, and wheat bran. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Negro weighing up feed made of peanut shells and blackstrap molasses. Comanche, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLACKSTRAP

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  blackstrap molasses

55

  blackstrap

9

  blackstrap park provincial

2

  blackstrap health molasses

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BLACKSTRAP

Language Translations for "BLACKSTRAP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

долнокачествен портвайн. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackstrapblay

   

Russian 

  

дешевый портвейн или ром. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

crni povez. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

billigt vin. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rom ile yapılan bir tür içki. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BLACKSTRAP

Misspellings

"BLACKSTRAP" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backstrap, Blackstar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BLACKSTRAP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-k-l-p-r-s-t"

-2 letters: backslap, caltraps.

-3 letters: caltrap, carpals.

-4 letters: altars, astral, basalt, blacks, bracts, cabals, carats, carpal, claspt, craals, kabars, kalpas, karats, kraals, lascar, parkas, pascal, placks, rabats, rascal, ratals, sacral, satrap, scalar, scarab, tablas, talars, tarsal, tracks.

-5 letters: aback, alack, albas, altar, apart, araks, artal, ataps, atlas, baals, backs, balas, balks, balsa, barks, basal, black, blast.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BLACKSTRAP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 4C 41 43 4B 53 54 52 41 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-..    .-    -.-.    -.-    ...    -    .-.    .-    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0041 0043 004B 0053 0054 0052 0041 0050

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36463537455354523550

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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