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HARQUEBUSE

Definition: HARQUEBUSE

HARQUEBUSE

Noun

1. A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HARQUEBUSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Modern Translations: HARQUEBUSE

Language Translations for "HARQUEBUSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Ukranian 

  

аркебуза (harquebus). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: HARQUEBUSE

Derivations

Words beginning with "HARQUEBUSE": harquebuses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HARQUEBUSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-h-q-r-s-u-u"

-1 letter: harquebus.

-2 letters: arquebus, usquebae.

-3 letters: barques, brusque, bureaus, quaeres, quasher, queuers.

-4 letters: abuser, aureus, barque, basher, basque, buqsha, bureau, bursae, busher, haeres, hearse, quaere, queers, queuer, queues, qurush, rehabs, reseau, rushee, square, uraeus, urease.

-5 letters: abuse, aures, bares, baser, bears, beaus, beers, braes, brash, brees, brush, buhrs, buras, bursa, burse, erase, habus, hares, hears, hebes, herbs, heres, quare, quash, queer, queue, qursh, rebus, rehab, reuse, rheas, rubes, rubus, saber, sabre, saree, share, shear, sheer, shrub, squab, subah, suber, surah, urase, ureas, ursae, usher, usque.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-h-q-r-s-u-u"
 

+1 letter: harquebuses.

 

+2 letters: harquebusier.

 

+3 letters: harquebusiers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HARQUEBUSE


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

48 41 52 51 55 45 42 55 53 45

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)

01001000 01000001 01010010 01010001 01010101 01000101 01000010 01010101 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#82 &#81 &#85 &#69 &#66 &#85 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 0052 0051 0055 0045 0042 0055 0053 0045

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

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

42355251553936555339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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