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Definition: WHIPSTAFF |
WHIPSTAFFNoun1. A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering. |
Date "WHIPSTAFF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | We hauled off upon the lanyard of the whipstaff, and helped the man at helm. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
manor whipstaff | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-f-h-i-p-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: haffits. | |
-3 letters: faiths, fifths, haffit, pitsaw, whiffs. | |
-4 letters: aphis, apish, faith, fiats, fifth, hafis, hafts, paths, pitas, piths, pshaw, saith, shaft, shift, spahi, spait, spiff, staff, staph, stiff, swath, swift, swith, tapis, thaws, tiffs, waffs, wafts, waifs, waist, waits, whaps, whats, whiff, whips, whipt, whist, whits, wisha. | |
-5 letters: aits, fash, fast, fats, fiat, fish. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 48 49 50 53 54 41 46 46 |
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