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ASTRINGER

Definition: ASTRINGER

ASTRINGER

Noun

1. A falconer who keeps a goshawk.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Astringer \As*trin"ger\, noun. [from Old English expression ostreger, Old French ostrucier, French autoursier, from the Old French expression austour, ostor, hawk, French autour; compare to Latin acceptor, for accipiter, hawk.]. (references)

 

Rhyming with "ASTRINGER"

Words rhyming with "ASTRINGER" (pronounced 'As*trin"ger'): Agger, Arranger, Assuager, Auger, Avenger, Barger, Besieger, Blancmanger, Blunger, Boroughmonger, Bragger, Bugger, Bulger, Changer, Charger, Cogger, Conger, Cringer, flogger, forger, Gager, Gagger, Gauger, gouger, Granger, Infringer, jogger, lager, lagger, logger, lounger, maiger, malinger, manger, merger, obliger, Overeager, Overlinger, Pegger, Phalanger, Plugger, Plunger, Presager, Promulger, Pugger, Purger, Reforger, Revenger, Sauger, scourger. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ASTRINGER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: arresting, serrating.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: angriest, astringe, earrings, ganister, gantries, grainers, granites, granters, ingrates, rangiest, regrants, restrain, restring, retrains, starring, strainer, stranger, stringer, terrains, trainers.

-2 letters: aigrets, anestri, angrier, antsier, argents, artsier, earings, earring, easting, eatings, erasing, errants, gainers, gaiters, garners, garnets, garrets, garters, gastrin, grainer, granite, granter, graters, gratine, gratins, ingates, ingesta, ingrate, nastier, rangers, rangier.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: garnitures, registrant, restarting, ringmaster, traversing, treasuring.

 

+2 letters: arrestingly, denigrators, garnierites, heartstring, integrators, intergrades, intergrafts, quarterings, rearresting, reasserting, reassorting, registrants, remastering, restraining, ringmasters, ringstraked, springwater, strangering, stranguries, trailerings, transfigure.

 

+3 letters: arraignments, ferrimagnets, generatrices, granitewares, heartstrings, impregnators, interrobangs, interrogates, mastersinger, peregrinates, refrigerants, registration, reintegrates, remigrations, replastering, springwaters, straightener, transferring, transfigured, transfigures, transmigrate.

 

+4 letters: argentiferous, disintegrator, garnetiferous, geriatricians, granodiorites, granularities, heartburnings, interchangers, interrogatees, interrogators, introgressant, kindergartens, mastersingers, narratologies, orchestrating, overasserting, overmastering, overstraining, perseverating, premarketings, reafforesting, redintegrates, regenerations, registrations, reinvigorates, remonstrating, reregulations, resegregating, resegregation, retranslating, straighteners, transgressing, transgression, transgressive, transmigrated, transmigrates, transpiercing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ASTRINGER


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

41 53 54 52 49 4E 47 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)

01000001 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0054 0052 0049 004E 0047 0045 0052

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

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

355354524348413952

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INDEX

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


  

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