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Pelew

Definition: Pelew

Pelew

Noun

1. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "Pelew" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Synonyms: Pelew

Synonyms: Belau (n), Palau (n), Palau Islands (n). (additional references)

Commercial Usage: Pelew

Domain	Title
Books	A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captive and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nu Who Were Cast Away in the American Ship Mentor the Pelew islands (reference) (more book examples)
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Anagrams: Pelew

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-p-w"
	-1 letter: peel, pele, plew, weel, weep.
	-2 letters: eel, ewe, lee, pee, pew, wee.
	-3 letters: el, pe, we.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-p-w"
	+2 letters: ekpwele, wheeple, whelped.
	+3 letters: ekpweles, palewise, pinwheel, upwelled, wheepled, wheeples.
	+4 letters: dewlapped, pewholder, pinwheels, powerless, sleepwalk, sleepwear, speedwell, upswelled, wheepling.
	+5 letters: newspeople, periwinkle, pewholders, pinwheeled, planetwide, powderless, powderlike, ropewalker, sleepwalks, speedwells, spleenwort, sweepingly, weaponless, wentletrap, workpeople.
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Alternative Orthography: Pelew

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

50 65 6C 65 77

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)

01010000 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#108 &#101 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 006C 0065 0077

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

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

5071787189

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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