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Knobkerrie

Definition: Knobkerrie

Knobkerrie

Noun

1. A short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa.

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


Synonym: Knobkerrie

Synonym: knobkerry (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Knobkerrie

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

knobkerrie

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Knobkerrie

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

Farsi 

  

چماق سرگرد, توپوز (Maul). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bunkósbot (bludgeon, club, cosh, cudgel, knobkerry, knobstick, muckle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

obkerrieknay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Knobkerrie

Derivations

Words beginning with "knobkerrie": knobkerries. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Knobkerrie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Knockarvie. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Knobkerrie"

Words rhyming with "knobkerrie" (pronounced 'Knob"ker`rie'): Bain-marie, Causerie, Flacherie, gaucherie. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Knobkerrie

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-k-k-n-o-r-r"

-3 letters: enrober, onerier.

-4 letters: bonier, boreen, briner, broken, broker, enrobe, ironer, kroner, orbier, rebore, reborn.

-5 letters: biker, boner, borer, borne, brier, brine, brink, broke, eikon, enoki, inker, irone, kerne, koine, krone, reink, robin.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-k-k-n-o-r-r"
 

+1 letter: knobkerries.

 

+3 letters: knickerbocker.

 

+4 letters: knickerbockers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Knobkerrie


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

4B 6E 6F 62 6B 65 72 72 69 65

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)

01001011 01101110 01101111 01100010 01101011 01100101 01110010 01110010 01101001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#110 &#111 &#98 &#107 &#101 &#114 &#114 &#105 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 006E 006F 0062 006B 0065 0072 0072 0069 0065

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

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

45808168777184847571

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Knobkerrie"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításmagyar

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationangol
 


INDEX

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


  

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