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CROOK YOUR ELBOW

Specialty Definition: CROOK YOUR ELBOW

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	CROOK YOUR ELBOW. To crook one's elbow, and wish it may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not true--according to the casuists of Bow-street and St. Giles's, adds great weight and efficacy to an oath. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: CROOK YOUR ELBOW

Proper Noun Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-k-l-o-o-o-o-r-r-u-w-y"
	-5 letters: Colebrook.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Alternative Orthography: CROOK YOUR ELBOW

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

43 52 4F 4F 4B 59 4F 55 52 45 4C 42 4F 57

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

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

01000011 01010010 01001111 01001111 01001011 00100000 01011001 01001111 01010101 01010010 00100000 01000101 01001100 01000010 01001111 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#82 &#79 &#79 &#75 &#32 &#89 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#32 &#69 &#76 &#66 &#79 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0052 004F 004F 004B 0059 004F 0055 0052 0045 004C 0042 004F 0057

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

375249494525949555223946364957

INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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