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Definitions: CALTRAP |
CALTRAPNoun1. An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet. 2. A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
caltrap | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caltrap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | altrapcay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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Words beginning with "CALTRAP": caltraps. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: carpal. | |
-2 letters: altar, apart, artal, carat, clapt, craal, ratal, talar. | |
-3 letters: acta, alar, atap, carl, carp, cart, clap, crap, paca, pact, para, part, plat, prat, rapt, tala, talc, tapa, tarp, trap. | |
-4 letters: aal, act, ala, alp, alt, apt, arc, art, cap, car, cat, lac, lap, lar, lat, pac, pal, par, pat, rap, rat, tap, tar. | |
-5 letters: aa, al, ar, at, la, pa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: caltraps, calyptra, claptrap, placater. | |
+2 letters: acropetal, afterclap, applecart, calyptras, capitular, claptraps, paralytic, piratical, placaters, placatory, portulaca, practical. | |
+3 letters: afterclaps, allopatric, altarpiece, applecarts, applicator, archetypal, campestral, capitulary, carpellate, metacarpal, paralytics, particular, patricidal, portulacas, practicals. | |
+4 letters: acropetally, altarpieces, anthropical, apicultural, applicators, applicatory, capillarity, caprolactam, caterpillar, coplanarity, impractical, malpractice, marketplace, metacarpals, pantropical, parallactic, parasitical, parfocality, participial, particulars, particulate, patriarchal, patristical, piratically, piscatorial, plantocracy, postcranial, practicable, practicably, practically, pragmatical, puritanical, spectacular, unpractical. | |
+5 letters: antiparticle, archetypally, archetypical, capitularies, caprolactams, caterpillars, contrapuntal, cryptanalyst, malpractices, marketplaces, metaphorical, nonpractical, operatically, paratactical, particularly, particulates, plagiaristic, practicality, procathedral, proclamation, recapitalize, recapitulate, spectaculars, spectatorial, ultracompact, uncapturable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 4C 54 52 41 50 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-.. - .-. .- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01001100 01010100 01010010 01000001 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A L T R A P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 004C 0054 0052 0041 0050 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37354654523550 |
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