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WATERBOARD

Definition: WATERBOARD

WATERBOARD

Noun

1. A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Frequency of Internet Keywords: WATERBOARD

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  waterboard

4

  warrior waterboard

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: WATERBOARD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: arboreta, drawbore, teaboard, wardrobe.

-3 letters: aborted, aborter, abrader, aerator, arbored, arrowed, awarder, barware, boarder, borated, broader, drawbar, reboard, tabored, taborer.

-4 letters: abated, abater, abator, aboard, abrade, abroad, adorer, aortae, arroba, barred, barret, barrow, barter, boated, boater, borate, border, brawer, browed, darter, debtor, drawer, errata, orated, rabato, rebato, redowa, redraw, retard, reward, reword, roared.

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

+2 letters: weatherboard.

 

+3 letters: weatherboards.

 

+4 letters: weatherboarded.

 

+5 letters: weatherboarding.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WATERBOARD


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

57 41 54 45 52 42 4F 41 52 44

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)

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Bibliographic Items: "WATERBOARD"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "WATERBOARD"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: WATERBOARD