KNIFEBOARD

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KNIFEBOARD

Definition: KNIFEBOARD

KNIFEBOARD

Noun

1. A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "KNIFEBOARD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references)

Specialty Definition: KNIFEBOARD

Domain	Definition
Literature	Knifeboard One of the seats for passengers running along the roof of an omnibus. Now almost obsolete. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: KNIFEBOARD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-f-i-k-n-o-r"
	-2 letters: biforked, debonair.
	-3 letters: aneroid, bandore, bonfire, brained, broaden, forbade, franked, inboard.
	-4 letters: abider, bander, banked, banker, barfed, barked, binder, bodkin, bonder, bonier, bonked, borane, boride, braked, brined, broken, daiker, daikon, danker, darken, debark, denari, dinero, fadein, fainer, faired, fedora, finder, finked, foined, fonder, forbad, forbid, forked, friend, inbred, infare, inroad, ironed, kinder, kirned.
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.

Alternative Orthography: KNIFEBOARD

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

4B 4E 49 46 45 42 4F 41 52 44

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)

01001011 01001110 01001001 01000110 01000101 01000010 01001111 01000001 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#78 &#73 &#70 &#69 &#66 &#79 &#65 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 004E 0049 0046 0045 0042 004F 0041 0052 0044

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

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

45484340393649355238

INDEX

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

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