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HAY-KNIFE

Date "HAY-KNIFE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)


Specialty Definition: HAY-KNIFE

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A long-bladed knife with large rounded serrations on the edge for sawing off sections at the end of a stack or a pile of hay. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: HAY-KNIFE

Language Translations for "HAY-KNIFE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

hoekniv (hay knife). (various references)

   

French

  

coupe-foin. (various references)

   

German

  

Heumesser (hay knife). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αχυροκόπτης. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tagliafieno. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ay-knifehay

   

Portuguese

  

corta-feno. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cortaheno. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HAY-KNIFE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-i-k-n-y"

-2 letters: hankie.

-3 letters: fakey, hanky, hyena, kenaf, knife.

-4 letters: akin, ankh, ayin, fain, fake, fane, fine, fink, fyke, haen, haik, hake, hank, hike, inky, kaif, kain, kane, khaf, khan, kief, kina, kine, naif, neif, yank, yeah, yean.

-5 letters: ain, ane, ani, any, aye, fan, fay, feh, fen, fey, fie, fin, hae, hay, hen, hey, hie.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HAY-KNIFE


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

48 41 59 2D 4B 4E 49 46 45

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

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

01001000 01000001 01011001 00101101 01001011 01001110 01001001 01000110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#89 &#45 &#75 &#78 &#73 &#70 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 0059 002D 004B 004E 0049 0046 0045

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

423559154548434039

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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