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GOAT AND COMPASSES

Specialty Definition: GOAT AND COMPASSES

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Goat and Compasses A public-house sign in the Commonwealth; a corruption of "God en-compasses [us]."
Some say it is the carpenters' arms - three goats and a chevron. The chevron being mistaken for a pair of compasses. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: GOAT AND COMPASSES

Specialty definitions using "GOAT AND COMPASSES": BeefeatersPublic-house Signs. (references)

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Anagrams: GOAT AND COMPASSES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-e-g-m-n-o-o-p-s-s-s-t"

-5 letters: anastomosed, anastomoses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GOAT AND COMPASSES


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

47 4F 41 54      41 4E 44      43 4F 4D 50 41 53 53 45 53

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

        

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

01000111 01001111 01000001 01010100 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01000001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#79 &#65 &#84 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#77 &#80 &#65 &#83 &#83 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004F 0041 0054      0041 004E 0044      0043 004F 004D 0050 0041 0053 0053 0045 0053

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

4149355423548382374947503553533953

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