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DROP THE PICK

Specialty Definition: DROP THE PICK

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Phrase. Source: Comes from the word pick, a digging tool with the same shaped head as a anchor. Definition: To drop the anchor. Context: Given as an order to stop the boat and drop the anchor. Social Source: Alaskan Commercial Fishermen. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DROP THE PICK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-i-k-o-p-p-r-t"

-2 letters: prophetic.

-3 letters: choppier, depictor, trophied.

-4 letters: chipped, chipper, chirked, chirped, choired, chokier, chopped, chopper, cordite, cropped, croppie, diopter, dioptre, ditcher, hoicked, hoppier, percoid, peridot, picoted, pitched, pitcher, pockier, porkpie, potiche, predict, pricked, pricket, prophet, proteid, theroid, thicker, torched, tricked, tripped, trocked, trophic.

-5 letters: ceriph, chider, choked, choker, chored, cipher, cither, coedit, coheir, copied, copier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DROP THE PICK


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

44 52 4F 50      54 48 45      50 49 43 4B

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

        

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

01000100 01010010 01001111 01010000 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#80 &#73 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 004F 0050      0054 0048 0045      0050 0049 0043 004B

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

385249502544239250433745

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2. Orthography
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