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STEAM-KETTLES

Specialty Definition: STEAM-KETTLES

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Steam-kettles Contemptuous name applied to vessels propelled by steam-power, whether steamers, men-of-war, or any other craft.
"These steam-kettles of ours can never be depended upon. I wish we could go back to the good old sailing ships. When we had them we knew what we were about. ... Now we trust to machinery, and it fails us in time of need."- Kingston: The Three Admirals, chap. xvi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: STEAM-KETTLES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-k-l-m-s-s-t-t-t"

-2 letters: teakettles.

-3 letters: teakettle.

-4 letters: mateless, meatless, sleekest, tameless, testates.

-5 letters: attests, estates, esteems, kettles, latests, matless, measles, meekest, mestees, metates, mettles, saltest, samlets, settees, settles, stalest, tattles, teasels, teleses, testate, testees, tsatske.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STEAM-KETTLES


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

53 54 45 41 4D 2D 4B 45 54 54 4C 45 53

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

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

01010011 01010100 01000101 01000001 01001101 00101101 01001011 01000101 01010100 01010100 01001100 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#69 &#65 &#77 &#45 &#75 &#69 &#84 &#84 &#76 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0045 0041 004D 002D 004B 0045 0054 0054 004C 0045 0053

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

53543935471545395454463953

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