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REEF-BAND

Definition: REEF-BAND

REEF-BAND

Noun

1. A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "REEF-BAND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)



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Crosswords: REEF-BAND

English words defined with "REEF-BAND": Reef band, Reef points. (references)

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Modern Translations: REEF-BAND

Language Translations for "REEF-BAND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

礁石带. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kurtító zsineg, harmadoló zsineg, fogáskötő. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

"초 악대. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eef-bandray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: REEF-BAND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-f-n-r"

-2 letters: bander, barfed, beaned, bender, deafen, deafer, earned, endear, feared, fender, neared.

-3 letters: ardeb, baned, barde, bared, beard, brand, bread, brede, breed, debar, defer, denar, eared, ender, fader, fared, freed, frena, ranee, redan, refed.

-4 letters: abed, bade, band, bane, bard, bare, barf, barn, bead, bean, bear, beef, been, beer, bend, bene, brad, brae, bran, bred, bree, bren, darb, dare, darn, deaf, dean, dear, deer, dene, dere, drab, dree, earn, erne, fade, fane, fard, fare, fear, feed, fend, fere, fern, frae, free, nabe, nard, near, need, nerd, rand, read, rede, reed, reef, rend.

-5 letters: and, ane, arb, are, arf, bad, ban, bar, bed, bee, ben, bra, dab, deb, dee, den, ear, end, era, ere, ern, fad, fan, far, fed, fee, fen, fer, nab, nae, neb, nee, rad, ran, reb, red, ree, ref.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-f-n-r"
 

+2 letters: beforehand, refundable.

 

+3 letters: defibrinate.

 

+4 letters: defibrinated, defibrinates.

 

+5 letters: barefacedness, nondeferrable, nonrefundable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: REEF-BAND


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

52 45 45 46 2D 42 41 4E 44

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

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

01010010 01000101 01000101 01000110 00101101 01000010 01000001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#69 &#70 &#45 &#66 &#65 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0045 0046 002D 0042 0041 004E 0044

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

523939401536354838

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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