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ROYCROFTER

Specialty Definition: ROYCROFTER

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19th Century Satire

A successful book-maker on the East Aurora turf. From Fr. roi, king, and old Saxon crofter, or grafter. King of Grafters. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

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

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Anagrams: ROYCROFTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-o-o-r-r-r-t-y"

-3 letters: crofter, rectory, torrefy.

-4 letters: cooter, coyote, foetor, footer, forcer, oocyte, orrery, rector, reroof, roofer, rooter, terror, torero.

-5 letters: cooer, cooey, corer, coyer, croft, crore, error, ferry, fetor, footy, force, forte, forty, foyer, frore, fryer, ofter, recto, refry, retro, retry, rooty, rotor, terry, toyer.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ROYCROFTER


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

52 4F 59 43 52 4F 46 54 45 52

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)

01010010 01001111 01011001 01000011 01010010 01001111 01000110 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#79 &#89 &#67 &#82 &#79 &#70 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 004F 0059 0043 0052 004F 0046 0054 0045 0052

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

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

52495937524940543952

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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