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Definitions: MARTINGAL |
MARTINGALNoun1. The act of doubling, at each stake, that which has been lost on the preceding stake; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness. 2. A lower stay of rope or chain for the jib boom or flying jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself. 3. A strap fastened to a horse's girth, passing between his fore legs, and fastened to the bit, or now more commonly ending in two rings, through which the reins pass. It is intended to hold down the head of the horse, and prevent him from rearing. |
Crosswords: MARTINGAL |
| Non-English Usage: "MARTINGAL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (martingale). |
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Words beginning with "MARTINGAL": martingale, martingales. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-l-m-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: alarming, marginal. | |
-2 letters: granita, laminar, malting, marital, marling, martial, martian, marting, matinal, migrant, tamarin, tangram, trangam. | |
-3 letters: agnail, airman, amrita, animal, antiar, antral, argali, arming, atrial, gratin, lamina, laming, lariat, latria, lingam, magian, malign, manila, mantra, margin, marina, marlin, martin, mating, mitral, narial, raglan, ragman, ramtil, rating, ratlin, tamari, taming, taring, tarnal, trinal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-l-m-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: martingale. | |
+2 letters: maltreating, marginality, martingales, migrational. | |
+3 letters: ameliorating, premalignant. | |
+4 letters: agglomerating, agglomeration, antilogarithm, fragmentarily, galvanometric, gastronomical, glamorization, immigrational, intermarginal, marginalities, materialising, materializing, matriculating, perambulating, ungrammatical. | |
+5 letters: agglomerations, anagrammatical, antilogarithms, egalitarianism, glamorizations, mistranslating, morganatically, nongrammatical, organometallic, spermatogonial. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 52 54 49 4E 47 41 4C |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. - .. -. --. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A R T I N G A L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0052 0054 0049 004E 0047 0041 004C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)473552544348413546 |
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