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SHADOFF

Specialty Definition: SHADOFF

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Literature

Shadoff or ~~~Shadoof.
Shadoof. A contrivance in Egypt for watering lands for the summer crops. It consists of a long rod weighted at one end, so as to raise the bucket attached by a rope to the other end. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: SHADOFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-f-f-h-o-s"

-2 letters: daffs, doffs, fados.

-3 letters: ados, daff, dahs, dash, doff, fado, fads, fash, hods, oafs, offs, shad, shod, soda, sofa.

-4 letters: ado, ads, aff, ash, dah, dos, fad, fas, foh, had, hao, has, hod, oaf, ods, off, ohs, sad, sha, sod.

-5 letters: ad, ah, as, do, fa, ha, ho, od, of, oh, os, sh, so.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-f-f-h-o-s"
 

+1 letter: handoffs.

 

+4 letters: chiffonades, standoffish.

 

+5 letters: shuffleboard.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SHADOFF


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

53 48 41 44 4F 46 46

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 01001000 01000001 01000100 01001111 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#65 &#68 &#79 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 0041 0044 004F 0046 0046

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

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

53423538494040

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