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Definitions: GAVELOCK |
GAVELOCKNoun1. An iron crow or lever. 2. A spear or dart. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrument | Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GAVELOCK |
| English words defined with "GAVELOCK": Gaveloche. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GAVELOCK": Gablock. (references) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GAVELOCK": gavelocks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "GAVELOCK" (pronounced 'Gav"e*lock'): Belock, Breechblock, Carlock, Charlock, Chockablock, Daglock, deadlock, Double-lock, Earlock, Elflock, Enlock, fetlock, firelock, Fish-block, flintlock, forelock, Gablock, gunlock, Harlock, Havelock, Hemlock, Hoolock, Inlock, Killock, Landlock, Lovelock, matchlock, Mullock, Oarlock, Picklock, Pillar-block, Pollock, rowlock, Shacklock, Stumbling-block, Taglock, Tailblock, Ten-o'clock, Top-block, underlock, unlock, Uplock, Weighlock, Willock. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-k-l-o-v" | |
-1 letter: lockage. | |
-2 letters: alcove, coeval, lovage. | |
-3 letters: calve, clave, cloak, clove, gavel, gecko, glace, glove, laevo, vocal. | |
-4 letters: alec, aloe, cage, cake, calk, calo, cave, clag, clog, coal, coke, cola, cole, cove, egal, gale, gaol, gave, geck, goal, kale, koel, kola, lace, lack, lake, lave, leak, leva, levo, loca, lock, loge, love, ogle, olea, oval, vale, veal, vela, vole. | |
-5 letters: ace, age, ago, ale, ave, avo, cel, cog, col, ego, elk, gae, gal, gel, goa, kae, kea, keg, koa, lac, lag, lav, lea, leg, lek, lev, log, oak, oca, oka, oke, ole, ova, vac, veg, voe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-k-l-o-v" | |
+1 letter: gavelocks. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 41 56 45 4C 4F 43 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- ...- . .-.. --- -.-. -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01000001 01010110 01000101 01001100 01001111 01000011 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G A V E L O C K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0041 0056 0045 004C 004F 0043 004B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4135563946493745 |
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