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CORNISH ENGINE

Definition: CORNISH ENGINE

CORNISH ENGINE

1. A single-acting pumping engine, used in mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: CORNISH ENGINE

DomainDefinition

Mining

See:Cornish pump. (references)

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

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Crosswords: CORNISH ENGINE

English words defined with "CORNISH ENGINE": Plug rod. (references)

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Anagrams: CORNISH ENGINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-n-o-r-s"

-3 letters: coinhering, enshrining.

-4 letters: censoring, coinheres, congeners, congeries, consignee, coshering, creeshing, enriching, incensing, insincere, isogeneic, necrosing, nonsigner, recension, recognise, recoining, reechoing, reshining, reshoeing, richening, screening, secerning, signorine.

-5 letters: cheering, cheerios, cheesing, chignons, chinning, chinones, choiring, chorines, cinerins, cohering, coinhere, congener, coniines, coreigns, cosigner, encoring, enriches, enshrine, eringoes, erogenic, generics, greenish, grinches, groschen, heroines, inhering.

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Alternative Orthography: CORNISH ENGINE


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

43 4F 52 4E 49 53 48      45 4E 47 49 4E 45

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

    

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

01000011 01001111 01010010 01001110 01001001 01010011 01001000 00100000 01000101 01001110 01000111 01001001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#82 &#78 &#73 &#83 &#72 &#32 &#69 &#78 &#71 &#73 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0052 004E 0049 0053 0048      0045 004E 0047 0049 004E 0045

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

374952484353422394841434839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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