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ESTRAPADE

Definition: ESTRAPADE

ESTRAPADE

Noun

1. The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ESTRAPADE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Estrapade \Es`tra*pade"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

"ESTRAPADE" is a common misspelling or typo for: Entrapped, Scraped, Serenade, Stampede, Strapped, Striate, Striped, Stripped.

 

Synonyms within Context: ESTRAPADE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Attack

Aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak; estrapade, ruade; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at.

Punishment

Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Use in Literature: ESTRAPADE

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Bahorel will visit the Estrapade.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: ESTRAPADE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: asperated, separated.

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: adapters, asperate, pederast, predates, readapts, repasted, separate, trapesed.

-2 letters: adapter, adepter, aerated, aerates, dearest, departs, derates, parades, petards, predate, readapt, redates, repeats, respade, retaped, retapes, sedater, speared, tapered.

-3 letters: adapts, adepts, aerate, aretes, daters, depart, derate, derats, desert, deters, drapes, easter, eaters, erased, etapes, padres, parade, pardee, parsed, parted, pasted, paster, paters, pedate.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-p-r-s-t"
 

+2 letters: exasperated, unseparated.

 

+3 letters: endoparasite.

 

+4 letters: deuteranopias, disparagement, disparateness, endoparasites, exasperatedly, superannuated.

 

+5 letters: antidepressant, disparagements, drapeabilities, headmastership, pancreatitides, predestinarian, radiotherapies, supersaturated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ESTRAPADE


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

45 53 54 52 41 50 41 44 45

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)

01000101 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001 01010000 01000001 01000100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#80 &#65 &#68 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0053 0054 0052 0041 0050 0041 0044 0045

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

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

395354523550353839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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