Butcherbird

  

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Butcherbird

Definition: Butcherbird

Butcherbird

Noun

1. Shrikes that impale their prey on thorns.

2. Large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Butcherbird

English words defined with "butcherbird": European shrikeLanius borealis, Lanius excubitornorthern shrike. (references)

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Anagrams: Butcherbird

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-c-d-e-h-i-r-r-t-u"

-3 letters: chubbier.

-4 letters: birched, birthed, bitched, bruited, bruiter, butcher, chirred, churred, cribbed, cribber, curdier, curried, dhurrie, ditcher, drubber, hurried, rebirth, recruit, tubbier.

-5 letters: birder, birred, bribed, briber, bruted, burdie, buried, burier, burred, cherub, chider, chirre, chuted, cither, credit, cruder, curbed, curber, curite, curred, currie, curter, dibber, direct, dither, dreich, dubber, durrie, herdic, hurter, itched.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Butcherbird


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

42 75 74 63 68 65 72 62 69 72 64

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01110101 01110100 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100010 01101001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0074 0063 0068 0065 0072 0062 0069 0072 0064

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

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

3687866974718468758470

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INDEX

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


  

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