TO STAVE AND TAIL

  

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TO STAVE AND TAIL

Definition: TO STAVE AND TAIL

TO STAVE AND TAIL

1. In bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Anagrams: TO STAVE AND TAIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-i-l-n-o-s-t-t-t-v"

-3 letters: devastation.

-4 letters: dealations, lovastatin, tantalates, tantalised, tantalites.

-5 letters: antidotal, antidotes, antistate, atonalist, attainted, aventails, dealation, delations, dilatants, donatives, dovetails, insolated, lavations, salivated, saltation, salvation, sanitated, stational, stationed, tantalate, tantalise, tantalite, titanates, totalised, validates, vanadates, vandalise.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO STAVE AND TAIL


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

54 4F      53 54 41 56 45      41 4E 44      54 41 49 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#86 &#69 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#84 &#65 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0053 0054 0041 0056 0045      0041 004E 0044      0054 0041 0049 004C

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

5449253543556392354838254354346

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INDEX

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


  

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