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Definition: Knobkerry |
KnobkerryNoun1. 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: KnobkerrySynonym: knobkerrie (n). (additional references) |
| "Knobkerry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Knobkerry" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "knobkerry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | bunkósbot (bludgeon, club, cosh, cudgel, knobkerrie, knobstick, muckle). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | obkerryknay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-k-k-n-o-r-r-y" | |
-3 letters: broken, broker, kroner, ornery, reborn, yonker. | |
-4 letters: berry, boner, boney, borer, borne, broke, ebony, kerry, krone, onery. | |
-5 letters: bone, bonk, bony, bore, born, bren, byre, ebon, keno, kerb, kern, knob, konk, kore, obey, orby, oyer, robe, ryke, yerk, yoke, yore. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 6E 6F 62 6B 65 72 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- -. --- -... -.- . .-. .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101110 01101111 01100010 01101011 01100101 01110010 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K n o b k e r r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 006E 006F 0062 006B 0065 0072 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)458081687771848491 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | magyar |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | angol |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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