Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Drawbar |
DrawbarNoun1. A strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Drawbar |
| English words defined with "drawbar": clevis ♦ Dragbar, Draglink, Drawhead, Drawlink, Drawspring. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drawbar": drags ♦ lashing chain ♦ tractive force. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Topeka, Kansas. Hammering out a drawbar at the giant steam hammer in the blacksmith shop of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Drawbar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drawbar" is used about 6 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 (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "drawbar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | теглителна щанга. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | teknisk tilladt belastning (technically permissible drawbar load), fjedrent trækstænger (sprung drawbar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verende dissel (sprung drawbar), technisch toelaatbare verticale last (technically permissible drawbar load). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | barre (longshore drift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | technisch zulässige Stützlast (technically permissible drawbar load), gefederte Zugeinrichtung (sprung drawbar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ράβδος έλξης με ελατήριο (sprung drawbar), τεχνικώς αποδεκτό ασκούμενο φορτίο (technically permissible drawbar load). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | timone montato su molle (sprung drawbar), carico verticale tecnicamente ammissibile (technically permissible drawbar load). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awbardray lança flexível (sprung drawbar), carga de apoio técnicamente admissível (technically permissible drawbar load). (various references) сцепной брус, тяговый стержень, тяговый брус. (various references) ruda za vuču. (various references) enganche elástico (sprung drawbar), carga vertical técnicamente admisible (technically permissible drawbar load). (various references) thanh toán, đòn kéo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drawbar": drawbars. (additional references) | |
| |
"Drawbar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crawbar, Dawbarn, Dharwar, Draba, drawar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-r-r-w" | |
-2 letters: award, radar. | |
-3 letters: bard, bawd, brad, braw, darb, drab, draw, ward. | |
-4 letters: aba, arb, awa, baa, bad, bar, bra, brr, dab, daw, rad, raw, wab, wad, war. | |
-5 letters: aa, ab, ad, ar, aw, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: drawbars. | |
+3 letters: handbarrow, narrowband, rewardable. | |
+4 letters: handbarrows. | |
+5 letters: weatherboard. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 61 77 62 61 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| 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 01110010 01100001 01110111 01100010 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r a w b a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0061 0077 0062 0061 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38846789686784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
