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HICKATHRIFT

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Hickathrift (Tom or Jack). A poor labourer in the time of the Conquest, of such enormous strength that, armed with an axletree and cartwheel only, he killed a giant who dwelt in a marsh at Tilney, Norfolk. He was knighted and made governor of Thanet. He is sometimes called Hickafric. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: HICKATHRIFT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-f-h-h-i-i-k-r-t-t"

-5 letters: fracti, iatric, thatch, thrift.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HICKATHRIFT


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

48 49 43 4B 41 54 48 52 49 46 54

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001000 01001001 01000011 01001011 01000001 01010100 01001000 01010010 01001001 01000110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0043 004B 0041 0054 0048 0052 0049 0046 0054

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

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

4243374535544252434054

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