COCK-PIT

  

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COCK-PIT

Date "COCK-PIT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)


Specialty Definition: COCK-PIT

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Literature

Cock-pit The judicial committee of the privy council is so called, because the council-room is built on the old cock-pit of Whitehall palace.
"Great consultations at the cockpit about battles, duels, victories, and what not."- Poor Robin's Almanack, 1730. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: COCK-PIT

Specialty definitions using "COCK-PIT": PANTILE SHOP, PASS BANK. (references)

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Anagrams: COCK-PIT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cockpit.

Words within the letters "c-c-i-k-o-p-t"

-2 letters: optic, picot, topic.

-3 letters: otic, pick, pock, tick, topi.

-4 letters: cop, cot, ick, kip, kit, koi, kop, opt, pic, pit, poi, pot, tic, tip, top.

-5 letters: it, op, pi, ti, to.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-i-k-o-p-t"
 

+1 letter: cockpits.

 

+2 letters: chopstick.

 

+3 letters: checkpoint, chopsticks, cuckoopint, pickpocket.

 

+4 letters: checkpoints, cuckoopints, peacockiest, pickpockets.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COCK-PIT


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

43 4F 43 4B 2D 50 49 54

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

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

01000011 01001111 01000011 01001011 00101101 01010000 01001001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#45 &#80 &#73 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0043 004B 002D 0050 0049 0054

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

3749374515504354

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INDEX

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


  

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