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Definition: STEENKIRK |
STEENKIRKNoun1. Alt. of Steinkirk |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: STEENKIRK |
| English words defined with "STEENKIRK": Steinkirk. (references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 54 45 45 4E 4B 49 52 4B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... - . . -. -.- .. .-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01000101 01000101 01001110 01001011 01001001 01010010 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T E E N K I R K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0045 0045 004E 004B 0049 0052 004B |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)535439394845435245 |
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