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SHOE THE ANCHOR

Specialty Definition: SHOE THE ANCHOR

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Shoe the Anchor (To). To cover the flukes of an anchor with a broad triangular piece of plank, in order that the anchor may have a stronger hold in soft ground. The French have the same phrase: ensoler l'ancre. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: SHOE THE ANCHOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-h-h-n-o-o-r-s-t"

-4 letters: anchorets, carotenes, chastener, corantoes, coronates, ethnarchs.

-5 letters: acetones, ancestor, anchoret, carotene, cartoons, centares, chanters, chantors, cheaters, cheetahs, cheroots, coherent, corantos, coronate, coronets, creosote, earstone, ecotones, enactors, enchaser, ensheath, ethnarch, hastener, hatchers, heartens, heathens, heathers, hectares, honester, honorees, hootches, notchers, notecase, oestrone, oothecae, ostracon, reascent, recheats, rechoose, rechosen, reenacts, resonate, sarcenet, schooner, sheather.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-h-h-n-o-o-r-s-t"
 

+4 letters: hexachloroethanes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SHOE THE ANCHOR


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

53 48 4F 45      54 48 45      41 4E 43 48 4F 52

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

        

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

01010011 01001000 01001111 01000101 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000011 01001000 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#79 &#69 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#72 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 004F 0045      0054 0048 0045      0041 004E 0043 0048 004F 0052

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

5342493925442392354837424952

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