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GUARDS OF THE POLE

Specialty Definition: GUARDS OF THE POLE

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Guards of the Pole The two stars ? and ? in the Great Bear. Shakespeare, in Othello, ii. l, refers to them where he says, the surge seems "to quench the guards of the ever-fixéd pole."
"How to knowe the houre of the night by the [Polar] Gards, by knowing on what point of the compass they shall be at midnight every fifteenth day throughout the whole year." - Norman: Safegard of Sailors (1587). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: GUARDS OF THE POLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-g-h-l-o-o-p-r-s-t-u"

-4 letters: slaughtered, upholstered.

-5 letters: defaulters, delegators, doorplates, floodgates, godfathers, oleographs, peashooter, potholders, presageful, sporulated, surefooted, telegraphs, theologues, upgathered.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GUARDS OF THE POLE


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

47 55 41 52 44 53      4F 46      54 48 45      50 4F 4C 45

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

            

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

01000111 01010101 01000001 01010010 01000100 01010011 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001111 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#83 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 0041 0052 0044 0053      004F 0046      0054 0048 0045      0050 004F 004C 0045

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

415535523853249402544239250494639

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