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STABLE-DOOR

Date "STABLE-DOOR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)


Specialty Definition: STABLE-DOOR

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Literature

Stable-door Locking the stable-door after the horse [or steed] is stolen. Taking precautions after the mischief is done. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: STABLE-DOOR

Specialty definitions using "STABLE-DOOR": Pepper Gate. (references)

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Modern Translation: STABLE-DOOR

Language Translations for "STABLE-DOOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

prinde orbul scoate-i ochii (lock the stable-door when the horse is gone). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STABLE-DOOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-l-o-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: desolator.

-2 letters: barstool, bloaters, boodlers, broadest, delators, leotards, lodestar, sortable, storable.

-3 letters: aborted, aerosol, albedos, baldest, blasted, blaster, bloated, bloater, boasted, boaster, boatels, boaters, boldest, boleros, bolster, bolters, boodler, boodles, boosted, booster, borated, borates, bordels, borstal, dabster, dartles, debtors, delator, labored, labrets, leotard, loaders, lobated, lobster, looters, oblates, oldster, ordeals, rebatos, reboots, reloads.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-l-o-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bloodstream.

 

+2 letters: bloodstreams.

 

+4 letters: discomfortable.

 

+5 letters: bowdlerizations.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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