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Date "BENBOW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Benbow (Admiral ), in an engagement with the French near St. Martha, on the Spanish coast, in 1701, had his legs and thighs shivered into splinters by a chain-shot, but, supported in a wooden frame, he remained on the quarter-deck till morning, when Du Casse bore away. Almeyda, the Portuguese governor of India, in his engagement with the united fleet of Cambay'a and Egypt, had his legs and thighs shattered in a similar manner; but, instead of retreating, had himself bound to the ship's mast, where he "waved his sword to cheer on the combatants," till he died from loss of blood. (See Cynægiros, Jaafer, etc.) "Whirled by the cannon's rage, in shivers torn, His thighs far shattered o'er the waves are borne; Bound to the mast the god-like hero stands, Waves his proud sword and cheers his woeful bands; Though winds and seas their wonted aid deny, To yield he knows not, but he knows to die." Camoens: Lusiad, book x. Benbow A sot, generous, free, idle, and always hanging about the ale-house. He inherited a good estate, spent it all, and ended life in the workhouse. The tale is in Crabbe's Borough. "Benbow, a boon companion, long approved By jovial sets, and (as he thought) beloved, Was judged as one to joy and friendship prone, And deemed injurious to himself alone." Letter xvi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BENBOW" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BENBOW" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BENBOW" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Benbow | Last name | 1,000 | 8,969 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
benbow inn | 47 |
benbow | 20 |
admiral benbow inn | 13 |
benbow lake | 9 |
benbow campground | 7 |
admiral benbow | 6 |
mary benbow | 5 |
benbow ca | 5 |
benbow resort | 3 |
benbow california inn | 3 |
benbow park rv | 2 |
benbow ca garberville inn | 2 |
benbow ca inn | 2 |
benbow california | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: bone, ebon, enow. | |
-3 letters: ben, bob, bow, ebb, eon, neb, new, nob, now, obe, one, owe, own, web, wen, woe, won. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, en, ne, no, oe, on, ow, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-e-n-o-w" | |
+4 letters: browbeaten, cobwebbing, wobbliness. | |
+5 letters: browbeating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 4E 42 4F 57 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -. -... --- .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01001110 01000010 01001111 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E N B O W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 004E 0042 004F 0057 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363948364957 |
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