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GYROPIGEON

Definition: GYROPIGEON

GYROPIGEON

Noun

1. A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Gyropigeon \Gy"ro*pi"geon\, noun. [Latin expression gyrare to revolve English pigeon.]. (references)

Anagrams: GYROPIGEON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-g-i-n-o-o-p-r-y"
	-3 letters: gingery, goopier, greying, groping, orogeny, perigon, piggery, pirogen, preying, progeny, pyrogen.
	-4 letters: epigon, eringo, eryngo, ginger, gooier, gooney, goonie, gorgon, goring, gringo, gripey, groyne, gyring, ignore, oogeny, operon, orgone, orpine, pigeon, pinery, pinger, poring, prying, pyrone, region, roping.
	-5 letters: eying, genip, genro, gipon, giron, going, goner, gooey, goony, goopy, gorge, grego, gripe, gripy.
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: GYROPIGEON

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

47 59 52 4F 50 49 47 45 4F 4E

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 01011001 01010010 01001111 01010000 01001001 01000111 01000101 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#89 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#73 &#71 &#69 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0059 0052 004F 0050 0049 0047 0045 004F 004E

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

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

41595249504341394948

INDEX

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

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