DOWNHAUL

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DOWNHAUL

Definition: DOWNHAUL

DOWNHAUL

Noun

1. A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DOWNHAUL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Specialty Definition: DOWNHAUL

Domain	Definition
Sports & Leisure	A rope by which a sail is hauled down when it may not be trusted to come down by its own weight. --s are named after the sail they serve. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression: DOWNHAUL

Expression using "DOWNHAUL": downhaul of flag. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: DOWNHAUL

Language		Translations for "DOWNHAUL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		υποστολή σημαίασ (downhaul of flag). (various references)

Pig Latin		ownhaulday
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: DOWNHAUL

Derivations
	Words beginning with "DOWNHAUL": downhauls. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"DOWNHAUL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: downhall. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: DOWNHAUL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-h-l-n-o-u-w"
	-2 letters: unload.
	-3 letters: adown, ahold, aloud, honda, hound, nodal, uhlan, ulnad, waldo, woald, would, wound.
	-4 letters: alow, auld, awol, dahl, dawn, dhal, dhow, dona, down, dual, halo, hand, haul, hold, howl, hula, hwan, land, laud, lawn, load, loan, loud, lown, luna, ulan, ulna, undo, wand, waul, whoa, woad, wold.
	-5 letters: ado, and, awl, awn, dah.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-h-l-n-o-u-w"
	+1 letter: downhauls.
	+2 letters: unhallowed.
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Alternative Orthography: DOWNHAUL

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

44 4F 57 4E 48 41 55 4C

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)

01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110 01001000 01000001 01010101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#87 &#78 &#72 &#65 &#85 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0057 004E 0048 0041 0055 004C

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

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

3849574842355546

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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