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COFFERING

Specialty Definition: COFFERING

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Mining

A method of shaft sinking through loose, watery, or running ground. It consists in lining the shaft with a thick wall, made of brick and cement or brick and hydraulic lime with puddled clay in all cavities. Used for keeping back surface water but the method is now somewhat obsolete. (references)

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

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Crosswords: COFFERING

Specialty definitions using "COFFERING": plug box. (references)

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Misspellings: COFFERING

Misspellings

"COFFERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coiffuring, goffering, hoffiying. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: COFFERING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-g-i-n-o-r"

-1 letter: offering.

-2 letters: coffing, coinfer, conifer, coreign, forcing, foreign, griffon, officer, reffing.

-3 letters: cering, coffer, coffin, coiffe, coigne, coiner, confer, conger, coring, cringe, eringo, finger, fringe, goffer, goniff, griffe, ignore, niffer, office, offing, orcein, recoin, region.

-4 letters: coign, conge, corgi, crone, feign, fifer, finer, fogie, force, forge, genic, genro, giron, gofer, gonef, goner, gonif, grief.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-f-f-g-i-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: officering.

 

+3 letters: efflorescing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COFFERING


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

43 4F 46 46 45 52 49 4E 47

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)

01000011 01001111 01000110 01000110 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#70 &#70 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0046 0046 0045 0052 0049 004E 0047

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

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

374940403952434841

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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