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Definition: CLERK-ALE |
CLERK-ALENoun1. A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Clerk-ale and ~~~Church-ale. Church-ale. Mr. Douce says the word "ale" is used in such composite words as bride-ale, clerk-ale, church-ale, lamb-ale, Midsummer-ale, Scot-ale, Whitsun-ale, etc., for revel or feast, ale being the chief liquor given. "The multitude call Church-ale Sunday their revelyng day, which day is spent in bulbeatings, bearbeating, ... dicying, ... and drunkenness."- W. Kethe (1570). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CLERK-ALE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 干事强麦é…'. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | erk-aleclay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-k-l-l-r" | |
-2 letters: calker, caller, cellae, cellar, cereal, lacker, leaker, rackle, recall, relace. | |
-3 letters: ackee, allee, carle, cella, clear, cleek, clerk, crake, creak, creek, creel, lacer, laker, laree, rakee. | |
-4 letters: acre, akee, alec, alee, cake, calk, call, care, cark, carl, cell, cere, earl, kale, keel, lace, lack, lake, lark, leak, leal, lear, leek, leer, leke, race. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-k-l-l-r" | |
+2 letters: salesclerk. | |
+3 letters: salesclerks. | |
+4 letters: shellcracker. | |
+5 letters: knuckleballer, porcelainlike, shellcrackers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 45 52 4B 2D 41 4C 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000101 01010010 01001011 00101101 01000001 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L E R K - A L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0045 0052 004B 002D 0041 004C 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374639524515354639 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | å—å…¸ , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉è¯, ä¸ , æ¼¢ , ä¸åœ‹ |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英è¯, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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