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ICE-BROOK

Date "ICE-BROOK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)


Specialty Definition: ICE-BROOK

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Literature

Ice-brook A sword of ice-brook temper. Of the very best quality. The Spaniards used to plunge their swords and other weapons, while hot from the forge, into the brook Salo [Xalon], near Bilbilis, in Celtiberia, to harden them. The water of this brook is very cold.
"It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook temper."
Shakespeare: Othello, v. 2.
"Sævo Bilbilin optimam metallo
Et ferro Plateam suo sonantem
Quam fluctu tenui sed inquieto
Armorum Salo temperator ambit."
Martial. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: ICE-BROOK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-k-o-o-r"

-1 letter: brookie.

-2 letters: bicker, booker, bookie, cooker, cookie, corbie, rebook, recook, rookie.

-3 letters: biker, boric, brick, brock, broke, brook, cooer, crook, icker, iroko, ocker, oorie.

-4 letters: beck, bice, bier, bike, birk, bock, book, boor, bore, brie, brio, broo, cero, cire, coir, coke, cook, core, cork, crib, keir, kerb, kibe, kier, kobo, kore, oboe, reck, rice.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-k-o-o-r"
 

+2 letters: bootlicker.

 

+3 letters: bootlickers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ICE-BROOK


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

49 43 45 2D 42 52 4F 4F 4B

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

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

01001001 01000011 01000101 00101101 01000010 01010010 01001111 01001111 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#67 &#69 &#45 &#66 &#82 &#79 &#79 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0043 0045 002D 0042 0052 004F 004F 004B

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

433739153652494945

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INDEX

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


  

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