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TO COME UP THE CAPSTAN

Definition: TO COME UP THE CAPSTAN

TO COME UP THE CAPSTAN

1. (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Alternative Orthography: TO COME UP THE CAPSTAN


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

54 4F      43 4F 4D 45      55 50      54 48 45      43 41 50 53 54 41 4E

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

                

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

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01000101 00100000 01010101 01010000 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000011 01000001 01010000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#77 &#69 &#32 &#85 &#80 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#67 &#65 &#80 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0043 004F 004D 0045      0055 0050      0054 0048 0045      0043 0041 0050 0053 0054 0041 004E

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

5449237494739255502544239237355053543548

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