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BRICK-TEA

Specialty Definition: BRICK-TEA

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Brick-tea The inferior leaves of the tea-plant mixed with sheep's blood and pressed into cubes; the ordinary drink of the common people south of Moscow.
"The Tartars swill a horrible gruel, thick and slab, of brick-tea, suet, salt, pepper, and sugar, boiled in a chaldron (sic)."- The Daily Telegraph, Friday, October 16th, 1891. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: BRICK-TEA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-k-r-t"

-1 letter: bracket, tackier, tieback.

-2 letters: backer, baiter, barite, bicker, cakier, caribe, racket, rebait, retack, tacker, terbia, terbic, ticker.

-3 letters: acerb, areic, baker, baric, batik, biker, biter, brace, bract, brake, break, brick, caber, caret, carte, cater, ceiba, ceria, citer, crake, crate, creak, erica, icker, irate, kebar, kiter, krait, rabic, react, recta, recti, retia, taber, taker.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-k-r-t"
 

+1 letter: backbiter.

 

+2 letters: backbiters, bracketing, breadstick.

 

+3 letters: blacklister, breadsticks, cabinetwork.

 

+4 letters: bankruptcies, blacklisters, cabinetmaker, cabinetworks.

 

+5 letters: backcountries, cabinetmakers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BRICK-TEA


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

42 52 49 43 4B 2D 54 45 41

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

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

01000010 01010010 01001001 01000011 01001011 00101101 01010100 01000101 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#45 &#84 &#69 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 0049 0043 004B 002D 0054 0045 0041

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

365243374515543935

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