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CLOSH

Definition: CLOSH

CLOSH

Noun

1. The game of ninepins.

2. A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: CLOSH

DomainDefinition

Literature

Closh (Mynherr). A Dutch Jack-tar. Closh is corrupt form of Claus, a contraction of Nicholas, a name as
Common with the Dutch as Jack is with the English people. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

CLOSH. A general name given by the mobility to Dutch seamen, being a corruption of CLAUS, the abbreviation of Nicholas, a name very common among the men of that nation. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Crosswords: CLOSH

Specialty definitions using "CLOSH": CLOSHMynheer Closh. (references)

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Anagrams: CLOSH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lochs.

Words within the letters "c-h-l-o-s"

-1 letter: cols, cosh, hols, loch.

-2 letters: col, cos, ohs, sol.

-3 letters: ho, lo, oh, os, sh, so.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-l-o-s"
 

+1 letter: cholos, cloths, school, schorl, shlock, slouch.

 

+2 letters: cholers, chollas, chorals, chylous, cloches, clothes, cloughs, coldish, coltish, coolish, coolths, loaches, lochans, molochs, orchils, salchow, schlock, scholar, scholia, schools, schorls, shlocks, shylock, slouchy, splotch.

 

+3 letters: acholias, alcohols, blockish, blotches, calathos, camphols, ceorlish, chalones, cheloids, chloasma, chlorals, chlorids, chlorins, chlorous, cholates, cholents, choleras, cholines, chorales, chortles, chromyls, cloddish, clownish, coalfish, coalshed, cochleas, echelons, echoless, eschalot, glochids, halcyons, helicons, hemlocks, hillocks, holistic, mochilas, reschool, salchows, schlocks, schlocky, scholars, scholium, schooled, selcouth, sherlock, shoelace, shylocks, slouched, sloucher, slouches, splotchy, trochils.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CLOSH


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

43 4C 4F 53 48

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)

01000011 01001100 01001111 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#76 &#79 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004C 004F 0053 0048

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

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

3746495342

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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