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COUNTER-CASTER

Date "COUNTER-CASTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references)


Specialty Definition: COUNTER-CASTER

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Literature

Counter-caster One who keeps accounts, or casts up accounts by counters. Thus, in The Winter's Tale, the Clown says, "Fifteen hundred shorn; what comes the wool to? I cannot do't without counters." (Act iv. s. 3.)
"And what was he?
Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
And I ... must be belee'd and calmed
By debitor and creditor, this counter-caster"
Shakespeare: Othello, i. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: COUNTER-CASTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-n-o-r-r-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: contractures.

-2 letters: contracture, counteracts, reconstruct.

-3 letters: consecrate, contactees, correctest, counteract, occurrents, racecourse, raconteurs, recontacts, recounters, rectorates, utterances.

-4 letters: accentors, accouters, accoutres, cancerous, carotenes, cetaceous, cocreates, concretes, construct, contactee, contester, contracts, coruscant, coruscate, cotrustee, courantes, courtesan, creatures, eructates, nectarous, occurrent, outrances, raconteur, ratteners, reaccents, recanters, recontact, recounter, recreants, rectorate, renatures, retroacts, saunterer, scatterer, streetcar, trecentos.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-n-o-r-r-s-t-t-u"
 

+3 letters: counterattackers, counterreactions, nonarchitectures.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COUNTER-CASTER


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

43 4F 55 4E 54 45 52 2D 43 41 53 54 45 52

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

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

01000011 01001111 01010101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 00101101 01000011 01000001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#45 &#67 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0055 004E 0054 0045 0052 002D 0043 0041 0053 0054 0045 0052

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

3749554854395215373553543952

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