WALLOWER

  

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WALLOWER

Definitions: WALLOWER

WALLOWER

Noun

1. A lantern wheel; a trundle.

2. One who, or that which, wallows.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WALLOWER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references)


Photo Album: WALLOWER

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Beebe Windmill, Bridgehampton, New York. Floor 4; Brake wheel with iron bevel cogs, cast iron bevel wallower. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, NY,52-BRIG,4-6).Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Modern Translations: WALLOWER

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

German

  

Genießer (connoisseur, Epicure, epicures, gourmet, pleasure-lover, wallowers). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κυλιομένοσ στη λάσπη, κυλιομένοσ εισ λάσπην. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ymmyltagh (tumbler). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allowerway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: WALLOWER

Derivations

Words beginning with "WALLOWER": wallowers. (additional references)

Words ending with "WALLOWER": swallower. (additional references)

Words containing "WALLOWER": swallowers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WALLOWER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-o-r-w-w"

-2 letters: loreal, wallow.

-3 letters: allow, loral, lower, rowel, waler.

-4 letters: aero, aloe, alow, awol, earl, leal, lear, lore, lowe, olea, olla, oral, orle, rale, real, role, roll, wale, wall, ware, wawl, weal, wear, well, wore.

-5 letters: ale, all, are, awe, awl, ear, ell, era, lar, law, lea, low, oar, ole, ora, ore, owe, owl, raw.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-o-r-w-w"
 

+1 letter: swallower, wallowers.

 

+2 letters: hollowware, swallowers, wallflower, willowware, yellowware.

 

+3 letters: hollowwares, wallflowers, willowwares, yellowwares.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WALLOWER


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

57 41 4C 4C 4F 57 45 52

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)

01010111 01000001 01001100 01001100 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#79 &#87 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 004C 004C 004F 0057 0045 0052

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

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

5735464649573952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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