THORNBACK

Definitions: THORNBACK

THORNBACK

Noun

1. The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).

2. A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "THORNBACK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Slang in 1811	THORNBACK. An old maid. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: THORNBACK

English words defined with "THORNBACK": Dorn ♦ king crab. (references)

Specialty definitions using "THORNBACK": THORNBACK. (references)

"THORNBACK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "THORNBACK" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "THORNBACK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		скат (devil fish, hang, pitch, ramp, shoulder, skat, skate, slope, whip ray), голям морски паяк. (various references)

Danish		sømrokke (roker, thornback ray). (various references)

Dutch		stekelrog (maiden ray, roker, thornback ray), ruige rog (maiden ray, roker, thornback ray), gewone rog (maiden ray, roker, thornback ray). (various references)

Finnish		okarausku (roker, thornback ray). (various references)

French		raie bouclée (thornback ray), \RJC (thornback ray). (various references)

German		Steinrochen (roker, thornback ray), Nagelrochen (roker, thornback ray), Keulenrochen (roker, thornback ray). (various references)

Greek		καλκανόβατος (roker, thornback ray), ράσα (Atlantic prickly skate, blond ray, blue skate, bordered skate, bottlenose skate, brown ray, common European skate, flapper skate, Fuller's ray, homelyn ray, little skate, long-nose skate, long-nosed skate, marbled ray, painted ray, roker, rough ray, shagreen ray, skate, small-eyed ray, spotted ray, tarry skate, thornback ray, thorny skate, undulate ray, white skate, white-bellied skate), ράγια (rail), σελάχι (leather belt, skate), βάτος (bramble, skate). (various references)

Italian		razza chiodata (roker, thornback ray), razza (breed, ilk, kind, race, Ray, skate, sort, stock, strain). (various references)

Manx		scarrag gharroo (thornback ray), peegagh (long-tailed, long-tailed skate, thornbackray). (various references)

Pig Latin		ornbackthay

Portuguese		raia-pinta (roker, thornback ray), raia lenga (roker, thornback ray). (various references)

Romanian		calcan ţepos. (various references)

Spanish		raya de clavos (roker, thornback ray), raya común (roker, thornback ray), pez de Mahoma común (roker, thornback ray). (various references)

Swedish		knaggrocka (roker, thornback ray). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Raja clavata. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "THORNBACK": thornbacks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"THORNBACK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tornrak. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-k-n-o-r-t"
	-2 letters: chantor.
	-3 letters: anchor, archon, branch, broach, cantor, carbon, carton, contra, corban, craton, rancho.
	-4 letters: abhor, abort, acorn, actor, bacon, banco, baron, batch, baton, boart, botch, brach, bract, brank, brant, brock, bronc, broth, canto, carbo, carob, chant, chark, chart, cobra, cotan, crank, croak, korat, krona, nacho, narco, natch, north, notch, octan, orach, racon, ranch.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-h-k-n-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: blackthorn, thornbacks.
	+2 letters: blackthorns.
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