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OVERBULK

Definition: OVERBULK

OVERBULK

Transitive verb

1. To oppress by bulk; to overtower.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "OVERBULK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Note: Overbulk \O`ver*bulk"\, transitive verb. To oppress by bulk; to overtower. [Obsolete]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: OVERBULK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-k-l-o-r-u-v"
	-2 letters: louver, louvre, rouble, velour.
	-3 letters: bevor, bloke, bluer, boule, broke, burke, lover, ovule, roble, ruble.
	-4 letters: blue, blur, bole, bore, bulk, burl, euro, kerb, koel, kore, leku, levo, lobe, lore, lour, love, lube, lure, lurk, orle, over, robe, role, roue, rove, rube, rule, verb, vole.
	-5 letters: bel, bro, bur, elk, kob, kor, kue, lek.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: OVERBULK

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

4F 56 45 52 42 55 4C 4B

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)

01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01000010 01010101 01001100 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#66 &#85 &#76 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 0042 0055 004C 004B

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

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

4956395236554645

INDEX

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

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