LAYSTALL

  

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LAYSTALL

Definitions: LAYSTALL

LAYSTALL

Noun

1. A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.

2. A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LAYSTALL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)



Specialty Definitions: LAYSTALL

DomainDefinitions

Slang in 1811

LAYSTALL. A dunghill about London, on which the soil brought from necessary houses is emptied; or, in more technical terms, where the old gold collected at weddings by the Tom t--d man, is stored. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Synonyms within Context: LAYSTALL

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

Uncleanness

Dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: LAYSTALL

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

Albanian

  

vendi ku hidhen plehrat. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

бунище (dump, dunghill, kitchen midden, midden, scrap heap). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szemétlerakodó hely. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aystalllay

   

Portuguese

  

descanso (bracket, break, crutch, halt, landing, leisure, lounge, pillow, pillow block, placement, quiescence, quiescency, recumbence, recumbency, refreshment, relaxation, repose, requiem, respite, rest, resting, saddle, sleep, stand, time out, touch down, truce). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

свалка (dumping ground, dumpster, dust-hole, junk yard, melee, rough and tumble, scramble, scrap heap, scrapheap, scrapyard). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

đubrište (dump, midden), đubre (dung, fertilizer, garbage, junk, muck, offscourings, ordure, rubbish, sweepings, trash). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avstjälpningsplats (dump, dumping ground). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đống rác ùn lại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LAYSTALL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-l-l-l-s-t-y"

-2 letters: allays, allyls, lastly.

-3 letters: allay, allyl, asyla, atlas, lalls, salal, sally, salty, satay, slaty, stall, talas, tally.

-4 letters: aals, alas, alls, ally, alts, lall, last, lats, lays, sall, salt, slat, slay, stay, tala, tall.

-5 letters: aal, aas, ala, all, als, alt, ays, las, lat, lay, sal, sat, say, sly, sty, tas.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-l-l-l-s-t-y"
 

+3 letters: elastically, plastically.

 

+5 letters: ballistically, cladistically, crystalloidal, dualistically, ipsilaterally, nostalgically, realistically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LAYSTALL


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

4C 41 59 53 54 41 4C 4C

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)

01001100 01000001 01011001 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001100 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#89 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#76 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0059 0053 0054 0041 004C 004C

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

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

4635595354354646

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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