CAPERCLAW

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CAPERCLAW

Definition: CAPERCLAW

CAPERCLAW

Transitive verb

1. To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Note: Caperclaw \Ca"per*claw`\, transitive verb. To treat with cruel playfulness, as cat treats mouse; to abuse. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: CAPERCLAW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-p-r-w"
	-2 letters: carpale.
	-3 letters: caecal, calcar, calpac, carcel, carpal, carpel, clawer, earlap, palace, parcel, placer, prelaw.
	-4 letters: apace, areal, areca, aware, caeca, caper, carle, cecal, clear, craal, crape, crawl, lacer, pacer, palea, paler, parae, parle, pawer, pearl, place, recap, waler.
	-5 letters: acre, alae, alar, alec, aper, area, caca, cape, care, carl, carp, ceca, clap, claw, clew.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-p-r-w"
	+1 letter: crawlspace.
	+2 letters: clapperclaw, crawlspaces.
	+3 letters: clapperclaws.
	+4 letters: clapperclawed.
	+5 letters: clapperclawing.
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.

Alternative Orthography: CAPERCLAW

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

43 41 50 45 52 43 4C 41 57

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

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

⁼

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)

01000011 01000001 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000011 01001100 01000001 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#67 &#76 &#65 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0050 0045 0052 0043 004C 0041 0057

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

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

373550395237463557

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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