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DEAD BLOCK

Definition: DEAD BLOCK

DEAD BLOCK

1. Either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: DEAD BLOCK

Specialty definitions using "DEAD BLOCK": anchor block, anchor walldead manstory. (references)

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Modern Translations: DEAD BLOCK

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

Pig Latin

  

eadday ockblay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DEAD BLOCK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: blockaded.

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-d-e-k-l-o"

-1 letter: blockade, deadlock.

-2 letters: becloak, blacked, blocked, cladode, cloaked, codable.

-3 letters: aboded, albedo, backed, balded, balked, bladed, cabled, calked, coaled, coddle, colead, doable, docked, lacked, loaded, locked.

-4 letters: abode, acold, addle, adobe, baked, baled, black, blade, bleak, block, bloke, boded, cable, caked, clade, cloak, coble, coded, coked, coled, decal, dedal, dobla, dolce, doled, laced, laded, laked, lobed.

-5 letters: abed, able, aced, alec, aloe, back, bade, bake, bald, bale, balk, bead, beak, beck, blae, bled, bloc, bock, bode, bola, bold, bole, cade, cake, calk, calo, clad, clod, coal, coda, code, coed, coke, cola, cold, cole, dace, dado, dale, dead, deal, deck, deco, dock, dole, eddo, kale, koel, kola, lace, lack, lade, lake, lead, leak, load, lobe, loca, lock, lode, odea, olea.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-d-e-k-l-o"
 

+2 letters: roadblocked.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEAD BLOCK


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

44 45 41 44      42 4C 4F 43 4B

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

    

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

01000100 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01000010 01001100 01001111 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#66 &#76 &#79 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0041 0044      0042 004C 004F 0043 004B

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

3839353823646493745

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INDEX

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


  

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