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ARCH BLOCKS

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Mining

Applied to the wooden voussoirs used in framing a timber support for the tunnel roof, when driving a tunnel on the so-called American system. These blocks are made of plank, superimposed in three or more layers, and abreaking joint. (references)

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

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Synonym: ARCH BLOCKS

Synonym: Voussoirs. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ARCH BLOCKS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-h-k-l-o-r-s"

-1 letter: charlocks.

-2 letters: charlock.

-3 letters: chorals, schlock, scholar.

-4 letters: abhors, blacks, blocks, borals, borsch, brachs, broach, brocks, carbos, carobs, caroch, carols, chalks, charks, chocks, choral, clachs, clacks, claros, cloaks, clocks, cobras, corals, corsac, cracks, croaks, crocks, labors, schorl, scorch, shacko, shlock.

-5 letters: abhor, acock, backs, balks, barks, black, blahs, block, blocs, boars, bocks, bolar, bolas, boral.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ARCH BLOCKS


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

41 52 43 48      42 4C 4F 43 4B 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010010 01000011 01001000 00100000 01000010 01001100 01001111 01000011 01001011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#82 &#67 &#72 &#32 &#66 &#76 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0052 0043 0048      0042 004C 004F 0043 004B 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

355237422364649374553

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1. Synonyms
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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