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WHIPSTAFF

Definition: WHIPSTAFF

WHIPSTAFF

Noun

1. A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WHIPSTAFF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)


Commercial Usage: WHIPSTAFF

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Books

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Use in Literature: WHIPSTAFF

TitleAuthorQuote

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

We hauled off upon the lanyard of the whipstaff, and helped the man at helm.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WHIPSTAFF

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.
 
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  manor whipstaff

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Anagrams: WHIPSTAFF

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WHIPSTAFF


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

57 48 49 50 53 54 41 46 46

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: "WHIPSTAFF"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "WHIPSTAFF"

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