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BONE PICKER

Specialty Definition: BONE PICKER

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Occupations

Examines shellfish meats under ultraviolet light and removes pieces of shell, preparatory to canning: Places tray of shelled meats on table, or observes meats passing on conveyor under ultraviolet generators that cause shell particles to glow. Turns and stirs meats by hand to view all sides and picks out and discards bits of shell, viscera, and foreign matter. (references)
 Picks bones from offal as it passes on conveyor belt and tosses bones onto conveyor. (references)

Slang in 1811

BONE PICKER. A footman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Anagrams: BONE PICKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-i-k-n-o-p-r"

-2 letters: beckoner.

-3 letters: bicorne, peckier, pereion, pickeer, pioneer, pockier, porcine.

-4 letters: beckon, bicker, bicorn, bicron, bonier, boreen, broken, coiner, conker, copier, corbie, crepon, encore, enrobe, necker, nicker, opener, orcein, orpine, pecker, pereon, picker, piecer, pierce, pincer, pinker, pokier, prince, rebeck, recipe, reckon, recoin, reopen, repine.

-5 letters: biker, boner, boric, borne, brick, brine, brink, brock, broke.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BONE PICKER


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

42 4F 4E 45      50 49 43 4B 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01000010 01001111 01001110 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#79 &#78 &#69 &#32 &#80 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004F 004E 0045      0050 0049 0043 004B 0045 0052

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

364948392504337453952

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