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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Head of Cattle Cattle are counted by the head; manufacturing labourers by hands, as "How many hands do you employ?" horses by the nose (See Nose); guests at dinner by the cover, as "Covers for ten," etc. (See Numbers, Hand.) In contracting for meals the contractor takes the job at so much "a head" - i.e. for each person. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Chad | Conservative estimates from CEBVIRHA - UDEAC (Communaute Economique du Betail, de la Viande et des Ressources Halieutique) have placed the herd size as follows: 6.3 million head of cattle, 6.6 million sheep and goats, 1,000,000 camels, 20,000 pigs, 200,000 horses, 300,000 mules. (references) |
Travel | Botswana | Batswana like to talk about their special attachment to their "cattle post" (although it is considered rude to ask how many head of cattle one owns). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "HEAD OF CATTLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | dobytèe. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | stuk vee, bruut (brute, harsh), beest (animal, beast, brute, wild animal). (various references) | ||||||||||
Esperanto | bruto. (various references) | ||||||||||
Faeroese | ferføttur fenaður. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | nauta (cattle). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | tête de bétail. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Vieh (beast, brute, cattle, cattles, livestock, swine). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | hat szarvasmarha (six head of cattle), hat darab szarvasmarha (six head of cattle). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadhay ofay attlecay inkomo (animal, beast). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-f-h-l-o-t-t" | |
-3 letters: defalcate. | |
-4 letters: acetated, attached, cathodal, chelated, facetted, falcated, flathead, fletched, lactated, leachate. | |
-5 letters: acetate, athlete, attache, calotte, cathead, cathode, cattalo, chaetae, chaetal, chatted, chattel, cheated, chelate, cholate, cleated, clefted, clothed, clotted, dealate, deflate, deflect, faceted, falcate, fathead, feedlot, fetched, fettled, flatted, floated, lactate, latched, latchet, leached, letched, loathed, located, tetched, thecate, totaled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 41 44      4F 46      43 41 54 54 4C 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01000011 01000001 01010100 01010100 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E A D   O F   C A T T L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0041 0044      004F 0046      0043 0041 0054 0054 004C 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42393538249402373554544639 |
| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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