DRAUGHTHOUSE

  

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DRAUGHTHOUSE

Definition: DRAUGHTHOUSE

DRAUGHTHOUSE

Noun

1. A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DRAUGHTHOUSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)

Note: Draughthouse \Draught"house`\ (-hous`), noun. house for the reception of waste matter; privy. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: DRAUGHTHOUSE

DomainDefinition

Bible

Draught-house (2 Kings 10:27). Jehu ordered the temple of Baal to be destroyed, and the place to be converted to the vile use of receiving offal or ordure. (Comp. Matt. 15:17.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DRAUGHTHOUSE

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

alamo draughthouse

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

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Anagrams: DRAUGHTHOUSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-h-o-r-s-t-u-u"

-2 letters: guardhouse.

-3 letters: daughters, goatherds, outargued, outargues, outrushed.

-4 letters: auguster, authored, daughter, draughts, droughts, goatherd, hauteurs, hogshead, hotheads, outargue, outdares, outdrags, outheard, outhears, outraged, outrages, outreads, ragouted, readouts, resought, roughest, shortage, thrashed.

-5 letters: aerugos, arduous, aroused, augured, auteurs, authors, dearths, dehorts, desugar, detours, dogears, dotages, dourahs, dourest, draught, drogues, drought, drouths, dugouts, dustrag, duteous, earshot.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DRAUGHTHOUSE


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

44 52 41 55 47 48 54 48 4F 55 53 45

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)

01000100 01010010 01000001 01010101 01000111 01001000 01010100 01001000 01001111 01010101 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#65 &#85 &#71 &#72 &#84 &#72 &#79 &#85 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0041 0055 0047 0048 0054 0048 004F 0055 0053 0045

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

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

385235554142544249555339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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