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GIRDLESTEAD

Definitions: GIRDLESTEAD

GIRDLESTEAD

Noun

1. The lap.

2. That part of the body where the girdle is worn.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GIRDLESTEAD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Note: Girdlestead \Gir"dle*stead\, noun. [Girdle stead place.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "GIRDLESTEAD"

Words rhyming with "GIRDLESTEAD" (pronounced 'Gir"dle*stead'): Bedstead, Doorstead, Homestead, instead, Marketstead, Merestead, Noonstead, roadstead. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GIRDLESTEAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: disrelated.

-2 letters: deadliest, detailers, disagreed, elaterids, glistered, tragedies.

-3 letters: ateliers, deadlier, degrades, delisted, derailed, desalted, desalter, detailed, detailer, digested, digester, dilaters, disagree, disrated, dreidels, earliest, egalites, elaterid, gaselier, gladdest, gladiest, glariest, griddles, lardiest, leadiest, leariest, ledgiest, readiest, realised, realties, redialed, redigest, redtails, regilded, relisted, resaddle, resailed, reslated, restaged, retailed, seriated, sidereal, steadied, steadier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GIRDLESTEAD


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

47 49 52 44 4C 45 53 54 45 41 44

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 01010010 01000100 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010100 01000101 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#73 &#82 &#68 &#76 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0049 0052 0044 004C 0045 0053 0054 0045 0041 0044

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

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

4143523846395354393538

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INDEX

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


  

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