FLOBERT

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FLOBERT

Definition: FLOBERT

FLOBERT

Noun

1. A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"FLOBERT" is a common misspelling or typo for: Filbert, Floret, Flower, Floweret, Flowers, Flowery.

 

Synonyms within Context: FLOBERT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Arms

Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb:

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: FLOBERT

Expression using "FLOBERT": Flobert rifle. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: FLOBERT

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

flobert

9

flobert gun

3

flobert rifle

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "FLOBERT"

Words rhyming with "FLOBERT" (pronounced 'Flo"bert'): filbert. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FLOBERT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-f-l-o-r-t"

-1 letter: bolter, floret, lofter.

-2 letters: botel, fetor, forte, ofter, roble.

-3 letters: belt, blet, blot, bole, bolt, bore, bort, felt, floe, forb, fore, fort, fret, froe, left, lobe, loft, lore, orle, reft, robe, role, rolf, rote, rotl, tole, tore, tref.

-4 letters: bel, bet, bot, bro, eft, elf, fer, fet, fob, foe, for, fro, let, lob, lot.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-f-l-o-r-t"
 

+3 letters: clofibrate, factorable, footballer, profitable, softballer.

 

+4 letters: battlefront, bulletproof, clofibrates, comfortable, footballers, footlambert, forfeitable, forgettable, softballers.

 

+5 letters: battlefronts, flutterboard, footlamberts, forecastable, forgeability, unprofitable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FLOBERT


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

46 4C 4F 42 45 52 54

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)

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

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

01000110 01001100 01001111 01000010 01000101 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

F L O B E R T

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004C 004F 0042 0045 0052 0054

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

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

40464936395254

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