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BATFOWLING

Definition: BATFOWLING

BATFOWLING

Noun

1. A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Batfowling \Bat"fowl`ing\, noun. [From Bat stick.]. (Websters 1913)

 

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Crosswords: BATFOWLING

English words defined with "BATFOWLING": Batfowler. (references)

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Rhyming with "BATFOWLING"

Words rhyming with "BATFOWLING" (pronounced 'Bat"fowl`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Bed-molding, Bed-moulding, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Diesinking, Direct-acting, Do-nothing, Double-acting, Double-tonguing, Downfalling, Downlying, Drawfiling, Dressmaking, Easy-going, Farseeing, Fault-finding, Findfaulting, Fireprrofing, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, Gold-beating, good-looking, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, Heart-eating, heartrending, Heartswelling, Highflying, High-reaching, high-sounding, High-swelling, Home-coming, Home-dwelling, Home-speaking, Horseshoeing, housebreaking, housewarming, Ill-looking, Inbeaming, Inbeing, Inburning, Incensebreathing, ingrowing, Interviewing, Kiteflying, Knee-crooking, Know-nothing, Labor-saving, Lady-killing, Lammaking, Landlouping, Landowning, law-abiding, Lawgiving, leave-taking, life-giving, Life-saving, logrolling, Love-making, Manstealing, Merrymeeting, mischief-making, Moonshining, Nap-taking, Night-blooming, Night-faring, Nonslaveholding, Oathbreaking, Offscouring, Ongoing, On-looking, Outbreaking, Outcasting, Outlying, Outscouring, Pig-sticking, Pitfalling, Plain-dealing, Plant-eating, Playgoing, Railroading, Rush-bearing, seafaring, seagoing, Self-satisfying, Sharpshooting, Sheep-shearing, shipbuilding, shoemaking, shoplifting, shortcoming, Side-taking, Silk-stocking, Single-acting, slaveholding, Sleepwaking, sleepwalking, Snowshoeing, soothsaying, Stargasing, Steamboating, Steeplechasing, Stem-clasping, Stem-winding, Story-telling, Sweethearting, Tear-falling, Thanksgiving, thoroughgoing, timesaving, Top-draining, Topsoiling, Tufthunting, typewriting, Underbuilding, underclothing, Underdealing, Underfilling, Waterproofing, Water-standing, Wayfaring, Way-going, Weatherboarding, Welfaring, Well-being, Welldoing, Well-liking, Well-meaning, Wind-sucking, Wire-pulling, Wonder-working, Woolward-going, Wrongdoing. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BATFOWLING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-f-g-i-l-n-o-t-w"

-2 letters: bloating, floating.

-3 letters: antilog, batfowl, batwing, bawling, biltong, blawing, blowing, boating, bolting, bowling, fabling, fatling, flawing, flowing, foaling, fowling, loafing, lofting, tabling, wafting, wolfing.

-4 letters: albino, bagnio, baling, bating, bonita, bowfin, bowing, fating, flagon, fontal, gabion, galiot, gitano, globin, goblin, inflow, latigo, latino, lawing, lowing, obtain, talion, tawing, tiglon, toling, towing, waling.

-5 letters: aboil, aglow, algin, align, aloft, aloin, along, awing, baton, bigot, binal, bingo, biont, biota, blain, blawn, bloat, blown, bogan, boing, fagin, fagot, faint, final, fling, flint, float, flong, flota, flown, folia, ganof, giant, glint, gloat, goban, gonia, gonif, gowan, ingot, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, logan, logia, notal, owing, talon, tango, tigon, tolan, tonal, tonga, twain, twang, wagon, wigan, witan.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BATFOWLING


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

42 41 54 46 4F 57 4C 49 4E 47

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)

01000010 01000001 01010100 01000110 01001111 01010111 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#84 &#70 &#79 &#87 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0054 0046 004F 0057 004C 0049 004E 0047

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

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

36355440495746434841

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INDEX

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


  

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