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SEA LEGS

Definition: SEA LEGS

SEA LEGS

1. Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Specialty Definitions: SEA LEGS

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Literature

Sea Legs He has got his sea legs. Is able to walk on deck when the ship is rolling; able to bear the motion of the ship without sea-sickness. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: SEA LEGS

Specialty definitions using "SEA LEGS": jackup drilling platform, jack-up platform, jack-up rigmat-supported jack-upself-elevating rig, Sleipnir. (references)

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Modern Usage: SEA LEGS

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Screenplays

I'm here to try out my sea legs. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Movie/TV Titles

Sea Legs (1930)

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Commercial Usage: SEA LEGS

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Books

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

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Expression: SEA LEGS

Expression using "SEA LEGS": find one's sea legs. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: SEA LEGS

Language Translations for "SEA LEGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

zvyknout si na plavbu po moři (find one's sea legs). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πόδια συνηθισμένα να περιπατούν επί κινούμενου πλοίου. (various references)

   

Manx

  

cassyn marrey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

easay egslay

   

Spanish

  

equilibrio para andar en un barco. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sjöben. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SEA LEGS

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ageless.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-s-s"

-1 letter: eagles, easels, leases.

-2 letters: aglee, eagle, easel, eases, gales, gases, glass, glees, lases, lease, leges, sages, sales, seals, seels, slags.

-3 letters: agee, ages, alee, ales, ease, eels, egal, else, eses, gaes, gale, gals, gees, gels, glee, lags, lase, lass, leas, lees, legs, less, sage, sags, sale, sals, seal, seas, seel, sees, segs, sels.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-s-s"
 

+1 letter: eelgrass, eyeglass, gateless, gearless, largesse, selvages, wageless.

 

+2 letters: agelessly, angeluses, angerless, ensilages, fuselages, gaseliers, gasolenes, graceless, gradeless, graveless, guessable, largeness, largesses, legaleses, legalises, mesogleas, salvagees, stealages, verglases.

 

+3 letters: agendaless, anglesites, assemblage, changeless, eelgrasses, eyeglasses, galleasses, gladnesses, greaseless, legislates, megalopses, mesogloeas, regardless, sacrileges, sleazebags, sloganeers.

 

+4 letters: agelessness, allegorises, angelfishes, assemblages, bluegrasses, detasseling, evangelisms, evangelists, generalises, generalists, goldenseals, gracelessly, gracileness, greaseballs, largenesses, legateships, meaningless, persiflages, plasmagenes, sexagesimal, unguessable, wineglasses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SEA LEGS


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

53 45 41      4C 45 47 53

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

    

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

01010011 01000101 01000001 00100000 01001100 01000101 01000111 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#65 &#32 &#76 &#69 &#71 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 0041      004C 0045 0047 0053

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

533935246394153

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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