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STOCKDOVE

Definition: STOCKDOVE

STOCKDOVE

Noun

1. A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STOCKDOVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Specialty Definition: STOCKDOVE

DomainDefinition

Literature

Stockdove The wild pigeon; so called because it breeds in the stocks of hollow trees, or rabbit burrows. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: STOCKDOVE

English words defined with "STOCKDOVE": Stock pigeonWood dove. (references)

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Anagrams: STOCKDOVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-k-o-o-s-t-v"

-1 letter: dovecots.

-2 letters: dockets, dovecot, scooted, stocked, stooked.

-3 letters: cooked, costed, covets, docket, socked, socket, sooted, stoked.

-4 letters: codes, coeds, coked, cokes, cooed, cooks, coots, coset, coted, cotes, coved, coves, covet, decks, decos, docks, doest, dotes, doves, escot, kotos, scoot, socko, stock, stoke, stood, stook, stove, toked, tokes, tsked, voces, voted, votes.

-5 letters: code, cods, coed.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-k-o-o-s-t-v"
 

+2 letters: overstocked.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STOCKDOVE


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

53 54 4F 43 4B 44 4F 56 45

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 01010100 01001111 01000011 01001011 01000100 01001111 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 004F 0043 004B 0044 004F 0056 0045

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

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

535449374538495639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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