BLUE-PIGEON FLYER

  

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BLUE-PIGEON FLYER

Specialty Definition: BLUE-PIGEON FLYER

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Blue-pigeon Flyer A man who steals the lead off of a house or church. "Bluey" is slang for lead, so called from its colour. To "pigeon" is to gull, cheat, or fub. Hence, blue-pigeon, one who cheats another of his lead, or fubs his lead. "Flyer," of course, is one who flies off with the stolen lead. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: BLUE-PIGEON FLYER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-f-g-i-l-l-n-o-p-r-u-y"

-5 letters: epeirogeny, fleeringly, refuelling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BLUE-PIGEON FLYER


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

42 4C 55 45 2D 50 49 47 45 4F 4E      46 4C 59 45 52

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

    

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

01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101 00101101 01010000 01001001 01000111 01000101 01001111 01001110 00100000 01000110 01001100 01011001 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#85 &#69 &#45 &#80 &#73 &#71 &#69 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#70 &#76 &#89 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0055 0045 002D 0050 0049 0047 0045 004F 004E      0046 004C 0059 0045 0052

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

364655391550434139494824046593952

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2. Orthography
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