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| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | CHUMMAGE. Money paid by the richer sort of prisoners in the Fleet and King's Bench, to the poorer, for their share of a room. When prisons are very full, which is too often the case, particularly on the eve of an insolvent act, two or three persons are ob. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Date "CHUMMAGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-h-m-m-u" | |
-2 letters: gauche. | |
-3 letters: gemma, gumma, mache. | |
-4 letters: ache, acme, ague, ahem, cage, came, cham, chug, chum, each, game, gaum, geum, haem, hame, huge, mace, mach, mage, much. | |
-5 letters: ace, age, amu, cam, cue, cum, eau, ecu, emu, gae, gam, gem, gum, hae, hag, ham, hem, hmm, hue, hug, hum, mac, mae, mag, meg, mem, mug. | |
| 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)43 48 55 4D 4D 41 47 45 |
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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)-.-. .... ..- -- -- .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001000 01010101 01001101 01001101 01000001 01000111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C H U M M A G E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0048 0055 004D 004D 0041 0047 0045 |
| 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)3742554747354139 |
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