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GIBSTAFF

Definitions: GIBSTAFF

GIBSTAFF

Noun

1. A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage.

2. A staff to guage water, or to push a boat.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Gibstaff \Gib"staff`\, noun. [Prov. English gib hooked stick English staff.]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: GIBSTAFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-f-f-g-i-s-t"
	-3 letters: agist, baffs, baits, biffs, fiats, gaffs, gaits, gifts, staff, staig, stiff, tiffs.
	-4 letters: aits, baff, bags, bait, bast, bats, bias, biff, bigs, bits, fags, fast, fats, fiat, fibs, figs, fist, fits, gabs, gaff, gait, gast, gats, gibs, gift, gist, gits, isba, sati, sift, stab, stag, tabs, tags, tiff.
	-5 letters: abs, aff, aft, ais.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: GIBSTAFF

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

47 49 42 53 54 41 46 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)

01000111 01001001 01000010 01010011 01010100 01000001 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#73 &#66 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0049 0042 0053 0054 0041 0046 0046

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

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

4143365354354040

INDEX

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

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