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BARE POLES

Specialty Definition: BARE POLES

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Bare Poles (Under) implies that the weather is rough and the wind so high that the ship displays no sails on the masts. Figuratively applied to a man reduced to the last extremity. Figuratively, a disingenuous person sails under bare poles.
"We were scudding before a heavy gale, under bare poles." - Cupt. Marryat. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: BARE POLES

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Difficulty

Fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream, scud under bare poles.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BARE POLES

English words defined with "BARE POLES": Spoom. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BARE POLES": Poles. (references)

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Expressions: BARE POLES

Expressions using "BARE POLES": scud under bare poles under bare poles. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: BARE POLES

Language Translations for "BARE POLES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

със свити платна (under bare poles). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bevont vitorlákkal halad (to run under bare poles, to scud under bare poles). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arebay olespay

   

Romanian

  

cu toate pânzele strânse (under bare poles). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

без парусов (under bare poles). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yelkenleri açmadan (under bare poles), yelkenler inik olarak (under bare poles). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BARE POLES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-o-p-r-s"

-1 letter: earlobes, operable, parolees.

-2 letters: aerobes, areoles, beleaps, earlobe, elopers, leapers, leprose, parolee, paroles, pleaser, presale, relapse, repeals, reposal, ropable, saprobe.

-3 letters: abeles, aerobe, areole, asleep, aslope, balers, beleap, blares, blears, bleeps, borals, boreal, elapse, eloper, elopes, labors, lapser, larees, leaper, leaser, lepers, lopers, operas, pareos, parles, parole, parols, pearls, please, plebes, polars, polers.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-l-o-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: personable, porbeagles.

 

+2 letters: processable.

 

+3 letters: boilerplates, prosecutable, provableness, superposable.

 

+4 letters: cerebrospinal, doublespeaker, imponderables, nonperishable, operabilities.

 

+5 letters: comparableness, deplorableness, doublespeakers, impressionable, nonperishables, pardonableness, personableness, phlebographies, profitableness, provablenesses, superimposable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BARE POLES


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

42 41 52 45      50 4F 4C 45 53

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

    

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

01000010 01000001 01010010 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001111 01001100 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#82 &#69 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#76 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0052 0045      0050 004F 004C 0045 0053

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

3635523925049463953

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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