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DUKEWAY

Specialty Definition: DUKEWAY

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Mining

Som. A method of hoisting coal on an incline from the working face to the pit bottom by a rope attached to the winding engine at surface in such a way that while the cage is going up, the empty trams are running down the incline, and as the cage descends the loaded cars are brought up to theshaft. (references)

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

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Anagrams: DUKEWAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-u-w-y"

-1 letter: wauked.

-2 letters: waked, yawed.

-3 letters: awed, dawk, dewy, duke, dyke, wade, wady, wake, wauk, weak, weka, yaud, yeuk.

-4 letters: auk, awe, aye, dak, daw, day, dew, dey, due, dye, eau, kae, kay, kea, key, kue, uke, wad, wae, way, wed, wud, wye, yak, yaw, yea, yew, yuk.

-5 letters: ad, ae, aw, ay, de, ed, ka.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DUKEWAY


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

44 55 4B 45 57 41 59

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)

01000100 01010101 01001011 01000101 01010111 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#85 &#75 &#69 &#87 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0055 004B 0045 0057 0041 0059

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

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

38554539573559

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2. Orthography
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