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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Wooden Wall When the Greeks sent to Delphi to ask how they were to defend themselves against Xerxes, who had invaded their country, the evasive answer given was to this effect- Pallas hath urged and Zeus, the sire of all, Hath safety promised in a wooden wall; Seed-time and harvest, weeping sires shall tell How thousands fought at Salamis and fell. Wooden walls of Old England. The ships of war. We must now say, "The iron walls of Old England." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Themistocles | The wooden wall is your ships. |
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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 |
wooden wall shelf | 13 |
wooden wall plaque | 6 |
wooden wall phone | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WOODEN WALL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 板壁 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | いたかべ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oodenway allway | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-l-n-o-o-w-w" | |
-2 letters: wallowed. | |
-3 letters: allowed, lowdown, lowland, woolled, woollen. | |
-4 letters: dewool, loaned, noodle, walled, wallow, wandle, wawled, wooden, wooled, woolen. | |
-5 letters: adown, aldol, allod, allow, alone, anode, anole, awned, dawen, dewan, dowel, dwell, eland, endow, laden, ladle, lawed, llano, loden, looed, lowed, naled, nodal, odeon, olden, owned, waldo, waled, waned, weald, woald, wooed, wowed. | |
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| 1. Quotations: Familiar 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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