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CATHARINE WHEELS

Specialty Definition: CATHARINE WHEELS

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Catharine Wheels To turn Catharine Wheels. To turn head over heels on the hands. Boys in the streets, etc., often do so to catch a penny or so from trippers and others.
A Catharine-wheel window. A wheel-window, sometimes called a rose-window, with radiating divisions. St. Catharine was a virgin of royal descent in Alexandria, who publicly confessed the Christian faith at a sacrificial feast appointed by the Emperor Maximinus, for which confession she was put to death by torture by means of a wheel like that of a chaff-cutter. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: CATHARINE WHEELS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-e-h-h-i-l-n-r-s-t-w"

-4 letters: chainwheels, chatelaines, wheelchairs.

-5 letters: anthelices, cartwheels, catenaries, centralise, chainwheel, chatelaine, chatelains, chinawares, earthshine, enwreathes, hatcheries, heartaches, interlaces, linecaster, reescalate, thearchies, washeteria, waterlines, wheelchair.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CATHARINE WHEELS


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

43 41 54 48 41 52 49 4E 45      57 48 45 45 4C 53

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

    

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

01000011 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000001 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01010111 01001000 01000101 01000101 01001100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#65 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#32 &#87 &#72 &#69 &#69 &#76 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0054 0048 0041 0052 0049 004E 0045      0057 0048 0045 0045 004C 0053

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

3735544235524348392574239394653

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