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COUNTERSCARF

Definition: COUNTERSCARF

COUNTERSCARF

Noun

1. The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Anagrams: COUNTERSCARF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: cotransfer, occurrents, raconteurs.

-3 letters: accentors, accouters, accoutres, cancerous, confuters, coruscant, coruscate, courantes, courtesan, fractures, nectarous, occurrent, outrances, raconteur, trouncers.

-4 letters: accentor, accounts, accouter, accoutre, ancestor, antrorse, carouser, centaurs, coenacts, concerts, confects, confuter, confutes, construe, corrects, cosecant, counters, courante, courants, courters, creators, crofters, curators, currants, currents, ectosarc, enactors, factures, farceurs, forecast, foreruns, fortunes, fracture.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COUNTERSCARF


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

43 4F 55 4E 54 45 52 53 43 41 52 46

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 01010101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010011 01000011 01000001 01010010 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#67 &#65 &#82 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0055 004E 0054 0045 0052 0053 0043 0041 0052 0046

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

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

374955485439525337355240

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


  

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