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SWABBERS

Specialty Definition: SWABBERS

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Slang in 1811

SWABBERS. The ace of hearts, knave of clubs, ace and duce of trumps, at whist: also the lubberly seamen, put to swab, and clean the ship. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Expression: SWABBERS

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "SWABBERS": deck-swabbers.

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

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Anagrams: SWABBERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-r-s-s-w"

-1 letter: swabber.

-2 letters: abbess, barbes, resaws, sabers, sabres, sawers, sewars, swears, wrasse.

-3 letters: abbes, arses, babes, barbe, barbs, bares, baser, bases, bears, braes, brass, braws, brews, rases, resaw, saber, sabes, sabre, sawer, sears, sewar, swabs, sware, swear, wares, wears.

-4 letters: abbe, arbs, ares, arse, awes, babe, barb, bare, bars, base, bass, bear, brae, bras, braw.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SWABBERS


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

53 57 41 42 42 45 52 53

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)

01010011 01010111 01000001 01000010 01000010 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#87 &#65 &#66 &#66 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0057 0041 0042 0042 0045 0052 0053

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

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

5357353636395253

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