STEENKIRK

  

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STEENKIRK

Definition: STEENKIRK

STEENKIRK

Noun

1. Alt. of Steinkirk

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"STEENKIRK" is a common misspelling or typo for: Selkirk, Stinker.


Specialty Definition: STEENKIRK

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

STEENKIRK. A muslin neckcloth carelessly put on, from the manner in which the French officers wore their cravats when they returned from the battle of Steenkirk. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Crosswords: STEENKIRK

English words defined with "STEENKIRK": Steinkirk. (references)

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Usage Frequency: STEENKIRK

"STEENKIRK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STEENKIRK" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: STEENKIRK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-k-k-n-r-s-t"

-1 letter: kernites.

-2 letters: entires, entries, keister, kernite, kiester, reknits, retines, skinker, stinker, tinkers, trienes.

-3 letters: enters, entire, estrin, inerts, inkers, insert, inters, kernes, kiters, nereis, nester, niters, nitres, reinks, reknit, renest, rentes, resent, resite, reties, retine, seiner, serein, serine, sinker, sinter, streek, strike, tenser, ternes, tinker, treens, triene, triens, trikes, trines.

-4 letters: enter, ernes, esker.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-k-k-n-r-s-t"
 

+5 letters: strikebreaking.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STEENKIRK


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

53 54 45 45 4E 4B 49 52 4B

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)

01010011 01010100 01000101 01000101 01001110 01001011 01001001 01010010 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#69 &#69 &#78 &#75 &#73 &#82 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0045 0045 004E 004B 0049 0052 004B

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

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

535439394845435245

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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