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Definitions: Grayback

Grayback

Noun

1. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `grayback' derived from their gray Confederate uniforms.

2. A dowitcher with a gray back.

3. Sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the S hemisphere.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "grayback" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)


Synonym: Grayback

Synonym: knot (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Grayback

English words defined with "grayback": Body lousegray whaleMussel digger. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Grayback

DomainTitle

Books

  • Submarine Grayback: The Life & Death of the WW II Sub, USS Grayback (reference)

  • The Silent Service: Grayback Class (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Grayback

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

forestry grayback

4

grayback uss

3

grayback

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Grayback

Language Translations for "grayback"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Turkish

  

gri ceketli (greyback), gri balina (greyback), güneyli asker (greyback), leş kargası (carrion crow, greyback, hooded crow). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Grayback

Derivations

Words beginning with "grayback": graybacks. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Grayback

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-g-k-r-y"

-3 letters: aback, barky, braky, kabar.

-4 letters: agar, arak, back, bark, brag, bray, cagy, caky, carb, cark, crab, crag, gaby, garb, grab, gray, kbar, kyar, rack, racy, raga, raya, yack.

-5 letters: aba, aby, aga, arb, arc, ark, baa, bag, bar, bay, bra, cab, car, cay, cry, gab, gar, gay, kab, kay, rag, ray, rya, yak.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-g-k-r-y"
 

+1 letter: graybacks.

 

+4 letters: blackguardly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Grayback


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

47 72 61 79 62 61 63 6B

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)

01000111 01110010 01100001 01111001 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#114 &#97 &#121 &#98 &#97 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0072 0061 0079 0062 0061 0063 006B

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

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

4184679168676977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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