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COBWORK

Definition: COBWORK

COBWORK

Adjective

1. Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: COBWORK

Language Translations for "COBWORK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

pisé (loam, pisé). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stampaarde (loam, pisé). (various references)

   

French

  

pisé (cob, rammed-earth construction). (various references)

   

German

  

Stampflehm (loam, pisé), Pisee (loam, pisé). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πλινθότοιχος (loam, pisé). (various references)

   

Italian

  

adobe (Adobe). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

obworkcay

   

Spanish

  

adobe (adobe). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COBWORK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-k-o-o-r-w"

-2 letters: brock, brook, crook.

-3 letters: bock, book, boor, broo, brow, cook, cork, crow, kobo, rock, rook, work.

-4 letters: boo, bow, bro, cob, coo, cor, cow, kob, kor, orb, orc, rob, roc, row, wok, woo.

-5 letters: bo, or, ow, wo.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COBWORK


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

43 4F 42 57 4F 52 4B

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 01001111 01000010 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#66 &#87 &#79 &#82 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0042 0057 004F 0052 004B

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

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

37493657495245

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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