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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Performs any combination of following duties involved in manufacturing brick and tile products: Loads articles, such as brick, tiles, and sewer pipe on pallets and transports them to machines, disposal, or storage area, using handtruck. Carries bricks to kilns. Pushes empty kiln cars, drier cars, and mine cars to work areas. Replaces sifting screens in grinding units. Shovels clay-bearing earth into mine cars, couples cars, and signals TRUCK-CRANE OPERATOR (any industry) 921.663-062 to draw loaded cars to mouth of pit mine. Clears weeds, topsoil, roots, and debris from working areas in pit mines. Digs ditches in pit, using shovel. Trims walls and roof of clay tunnel in pits, using shovel. Cleans machines and passage areas of dust and clay residue, using broom and shovel. Smooths dried, unburnt clay blocks, using knife, board, and mallet. (references) |
| Operates winch to move towboats or other vessels from shop to yard, and launches vessels, using winch: Pushes buttons or levers of automatic or hand jacks to raise vessel off ground. Positions dolly on tracks under ship. Releases jacks to lower vessel onto dolly. Pushes button or turns crank to actuate winch that pulls dolly and vessel into yard. Transfers vessel from dolly to cradle on launching rails, using jacks and other supports. Lowers cradle and vessel into water, using winch. (references) | |
| Drives tractor to move spots (trailers of cotton) to suction shed, storage building, or other designated areas of cotton gin yard: Loads bales of cotton into trailer and unloads and stores bales. Keeps record of supplies issued from warehouse and delivers supplies to gin workers. May clean gin yard as directed. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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![]() | Navy yard worker, Portsmouth, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Wood yard worker. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-o-r-r-r-w-y" | |
-2 letters: yardwork. | |
-3 letters: arrowed, daywork, keyword, workday. | |
-4 letters: adorer, arrowy, darker, dowery, drawer, dreary, kayoed, okayed, orrery, redowa, redraw, reward, reword, rework, roared, roarer, warder, warked, warred, worked, worker, yarrow. | |
-5 letters: adore, ardor, arrow, awoke, darer, deary, deray, derry, dewar, dorky, dower, dowry, drake, drear, dryer, error, kerry, oared, order, oread, raked, raker, rared, rarer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)59 41 52 44      57 4F 52 4B 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01011001 01000001 01010010 01000100 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Y A R D   W O R K E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0059 0041 0052 0044      0057 004F 0052 004B 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)593552382574952453952 |
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