GREY HEN

  

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GREY HEN

Specialty Definition: GREY HEN

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Grey Hen (A). A stone bottle for holding liquor. Large and small pewter pots mixed together are called "hen and chickens."
"A dirty leather wallet lay near the sleeper, ... also a grey-hen which had contained some sort of strong liquor." - Miss Robinson: Whitefriars, chap. viii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Translation: GREY HEN

Language Translations for "GREY HEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

женската на глухара. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyírfajd tyúk. (various references)

   

Manx

  

kiark lheeah (black grouse, black grouse female). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eygray enhay

   

Russian 

  

тетерка (grey-hen, heath-hen). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mala tetrebica. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

orrhöna (heath-hen). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çil keklik. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GREY HEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: greyhen.

Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-n-r-y"

-1 letter: energy, greeny, gyrene.

-2 letters: genre, green, henry.

-3 letters: eery, eger, erne, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyre, gene, ghee, gree, grey, gyre, here, hern.

-4 letters: eng, ere, erg, ern, eye, gee, gen, gey, hen, her, hey, nee, ree, reg, rye, yeh, yen.

-5 letters: eh, en, er, he, ne, re, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-h-n-r-y"
 

+1 letter: greyhens.

 

+3 letters: everything, heterogeny, heterogony.

 

+4 letters: etherifying, hydrogenase, hydrogenate, yesternight.

 

+5 letters: hearteningly, heterodyning, hydrogenases, hydrogenated, hydrogenates, refreshingly, yesternights.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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