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BACKRUSH

Date "BACKRUSH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1911. (references)

Specialty Definition: BACKRUSH

Domain	Definition
Mining	The seaward return of the water following the uprush of waves. For any given tide stage, the point of farthest return seaward of the backrush is known as the limit of backrush or limit of backwash. See also:backwash. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations & Misspellings: BACKRUSH

Derivations
	Words beginning with "BACKRUSH": backrushes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"BACKRUSH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backruns, Bockris. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: BACKRUSH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-k-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: buckras, chabuks, chukars, kurbash.
	-2 letters: brachs, buckra, chabuk, charks, chukar.
	-3 letters: arcus, backs, barks, brach, brash, brush, brusk, bucks, buhrs, buras, bursa, carbs, carks, chark, chars, chubs, crabs, crash, crush, curbs, habus, hacks, harks, hucks, kbars, racks, rucks, sauch, scaur, scrub, scuba, shack, shark, shrub, shuck, subah, surah.
	-4 letters: arbs, arch, arcs, arks, auks.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-h-k-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: brushback.
	+2 letters: backrushes, brushbacks.
	+3 letters: bushwhacker.
	+4 letters: bushwhackers, swashbuckler.
	+5 letters: swashbucklers.
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Alternative Orthography: BACKRUSH

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

42 41 43 4B 52 55 53 48

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)

-... .- -.-. -.- .-. ..- ... ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 01010010 01010101 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#82 &#85 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0043 004B 0052 0055 0053 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3635374552555342

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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