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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Old Man of the Sea In the story of Sinbad the Sailor, the Old Man of the Sea, hoisted on the shoulders of Sinbad, clung there and refused to dismount. Sinbad released himself from his burden by making the Old Man drunk. (Arabian Nights.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hindrance | Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: OLD MAN OF THE SEA |
| Specialty definitions using "OLD MAN OF THE SEA": Phorcos. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sinbad and the Old Man of the Sea. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Old man of the sea, York Beach, Me. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "OLD MAN OF THE SEA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | nem lehet megszabadulni tőle (to be an old man of the sea). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | olday anmay ofay ethay easay yapışkan tip (barnacle, gadfly, nudnik, sticker), baş belâsı (a thorn in the flesh, a thorn in the side, annoyance, bother, confounded, headache, hellbender, nuisance, pain in the neck, pestilent, pestilential, stiff, tease, tough, troublemaker, troublesome). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-f-h-l-m-n-o-o-s-t" | |
-4 letters: methadones, montadales, smoothened, stomodaeal. | |
-5 letters: anetholes, deathsman, deathsmen, endosteal, falsehood, festooned, flatheads, fleshment, halftones, handlooms, headnotes, headstone, homelands, homestead, hoteldoms, lemonades, loadstone, loathsome, lodestone, meatheads, melodeons, methadone, methadons, methanols, monostele, montadale, nematodes, stomodaea, stomodeal, telamones, toolheads. | |
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