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BUSHRANGERS

Date "BUSHRANGERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)


Specialty Definition: BUSHRANGERS

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Literature

Bushrangers Escaped convicts who have taken refuge in the Australian "bush," and subsist by plunder.
"The bushrangers at first were absentees [i.e. escaped convicts] who were soon allured or driven to theft and violence. So early as 1808 they had, by systematic robbery, excited feelings of alarm."- West: Tasmania. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Commercial Usage: BUSHRANGERS

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Books

  • Brady : McCabe, Dunne, Bryan, Crawford, Murphy, Bird, McKenney, Goodwin, Pawley, Bryant, Cody, Hodgetts, Gregory, Tilley, Ryan, Williams, and their associates, bushrangers in Van Diemen's Land, 1825-1827 (reference)

  • The bushrangers of Braidwood (reference)

  • "Guilty wretch that I am" : echoes of Australian bushrangers (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BUSHRANGERS

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

bushrangers

57

australian bushrangers

26

australia bushrangers

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BUSHRANGERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-h-n-r-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: bushranger.

-2 letters: sagebrush.

-3 letters: bearhugs, brushers, burghers, shebangs.

-4 letters: abusers, arguers, arguses, assurer, bangers, barrens, bashers, bearhug, brasher, brashes, brusher, brushes, bugshas, burgers, burgess, burgher, burners, bursars, bursera, bushers, garners, gnashes, grabens, gurshes, gushers, hangers, harness, hausens, hungers, nursers, rangers, rashers, rasures, rehangs, rubasse, rushers, sangers, saugers, sharers, shebang, snarers, surbase, surgers, unbears, urbaner.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-h-n-r-r-s-s-u"
 

+3 letters: bremsstrahlung.

 

+4 letters: braunschweigers, bremsstrahlungs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BUSHRANGERS


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

42 55 53 48 52 41 4E 47 45 52 53

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 01010011 01001000 01010010 01000001 01001110 01000111 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#83 &#72 &#82 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 0053 0048 0052 0041 004E 0047 0045 0052 0053

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

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

3655534252354841395253

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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