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BACK-SPEER

Specialty Definition: BACK-SPEER

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Back-speer (To) To cross-examine. (Scotch.)
"He has the wit to lay the scene in such a remote ... country that nobody should be able to back-speer him." - Sir W. Scott: The Betrothed (Introduction). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: BACK-SPEER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-k-p-r-s"

-1 letter: barkeeps, prebakes.

-2 letters: backers, barkeep, beakers, berakes, bespake, bespeak, escaper, packers, peckers, prebake, rebecks, repacks, respace, respeak, speaker.

-3 letters: ackees, backer, bakers, beaker, becaps, berake, braces, brakes, breaks, breeks, cabers, capers, crakes, crapes, creaks, crease, creeks, creeps, crepes, escape, escarp, kebars, kreeps, pacers, packer, parsec, peaces, pecker, rakees, rebeck, rebecs, recaps, repack, sacker.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BACK-SPEER


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

42 41 43 4B 2D 53 50 45 45 52

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

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

01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 00101101 01010011 01010000 01000101 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#45 &#83 &#80 &#69 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0043 004B 002D 0053 0050 0045 0045 0052

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

36353745155350393952

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