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DRAG SAIL

Definition: DRAG SAIL

DRAG SAIL

1. (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also drift sail , drag sheet , drag anchor , sea anchor , floating anchor , etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: DRAG SAIL

English words defined with "DRAG SAIL": Drift anchor. (references)

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Anagrams: DRAG SAIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-l-r-s"

-1 letter: argalis, radials.

-2 letters: agrias, argali, argals, argils, dalasi, drails, glairs, graals, grails, lairds, liards, lidars, radial.

-3 letters: agars, agria, algas, algid, alias, argal, argil, arias, arils, dials, dirls, drags, drail, gadis, galas, gilds, girds, girls, glads, glair, glias, graal, grads, grail, grids, laari, laird, lairs, lards, laris, liard, liars, lidar, liras, ragas, ragis.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-i-l-r-s"
 

+1 letter: galliards, madrigals.

 

+2 letters: garibaldis, gladiators, gradualism, gradualist, guardrails.

 

+3 letters: gaillardias, gradualisms, gradualists, granadillas, madrigalist, plagiarised.

 

+4 letters: boardsailing, disagreeable, disagreeably, grandifloras, handrailings, madrigalists, plantigrades, radicalising, railroadings, sailboarding.

 

+5 letters: blackguardism, boardsailings, deflagrations, desacralizing, dischargeable, disparagingly, prostaglandin, quadriplegias, relandscaping, sailboardings, straightlaced, wallydraigles.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DRAG SAIL


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

44 52 41 47      53 41 49 4C

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

    

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

01000100 01010010 01000001 01000111 00100000 01010011 01000001 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#65 &#71 &#32 &#83 &#65 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0041 0047      0053 0041 0049 004C

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

38523541253354346

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INDEX

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


  

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