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BUNTLINE

Definition: BUNTLINE

BUNTLINE

Noun

1. One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Commercial Usage: BUNTLINE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ned Buntline, King of the Dime Novels (Outstanding Personalities Ser.: No 95) (reference)

  • The Buntline Special (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BUNTLINE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

buntline

7

the buntline special

5

buntline writer

4

buntline ned

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BUNTLINE

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

French

  

cargue-fond. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vitorlarúd középkötele, segéd-bevonókötél. (various references)

   

Italian

  

imbroglio (cheat, entanglement, fix, flam, hanky panky, imbroglio, kid, maze, racket, scrape, swindle, swindling, tangle, victimisation, victimization, wangle), caricamezzo (brail), carica (appointment, charge, load, loads, office, position, winding). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

untlinebay

   

Spanish

  

briol. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BUNTLINE

Derivations

Words beginning with "BUNTLINE": buntlines. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BUNTLINE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: benline, Bertolini, Buntine, bustline. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BUNTLINE"

Words rhyming with "BUNTLINE" (pronounced 'Bunt"line'): Acauline, Bowline, Cauline, Choline, Clothesline, Colline, Contline, Fringilline, Gantline, Girtline, headline, Lobeline, Lurchline, Moline, Pauline, Perivitelline, Praline, Ralline, Ramline, Rombowline, streamline, tapeline, towline, Tumpline, Vitelline. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BUNTLINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-n-n-t-u"

-2 letters: linnet, lutein, nubile, tunnel, unbelt, unbent.

-3 letters: benni, blent, blite, bluet, blunt, built, butle, elint, ennui, inlet, linen, lunet, unite, unlet, unlit, untie, until, utile.

-4 letters: belt, bent, bile, bine, bint, bite, blet, blin, blue, bunn, bunt, bute, etui, lent, lien, lieu, line, linn, lint, lite, litu, lube, lune, lunt, lute, nine, nite.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-n-n-t-u"
 

+1 letter: buntlines, unbelting.

 

+3 letters: bulletining, unprintable, unthinkable.

 

+4 letters: blueprinting, nebulization, unambivalent, unattainable, unlistenable, unnegotiable, unnoticeable, unobtainable, untenability.

 

+5 letters: bountifulness, nebulizations, nondeductible, sublieutenant, unbelligerent, uncontainable, uninhabitable, uninhibitedly, unmentionable, unsustainable.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: BUNTLINE


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

42 55 4E 54 4C 49 4E 45

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 01010101 01001110 01010100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#78 &#84 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 004E 0054 004C 0049 004E 0045

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

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

3655485446434839

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Non-English Dictionaries with "BUNTLINE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, francia, francese, francés

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításhongrois, magyar, ungherese, húngaro

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitalien, olasz, italiano

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespagnol, spanyol, spagnolo, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, angol, inglese, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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